Medical work experience
1998 – 1999 Sapiega Hospital, physician, endoscopist;
1998 – 1999 State Enterprise Klaipėda Hospital, gastroenterologist;
1999 – 2000 Vilnius University Hospital Santariškės Clinics, Head of the Emergency and Admission Department, physician, endoscopist;
2005 – present Vilnius University Hospital Santariškės Clinics, Centre of Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Dietetics, gastroenterologist;
2018 – present Baltic-American Therapy and Surgery Clinic, gastroenterologist.
Scientific activity
2003 Phase III clinical trials of ulcerative colitis;
2004 Phase III clinical trials of GORD;
2006 – 2007 Phase III clinical trials of ulcerative colitis;
2007 – 2008 Biomedical study of the treatment of viral hepatitis B;
2008 – 2009 Pharmacokinetic study of disease activity in liver cirrhosis (NRL972).
Presentations at scientific gastroenterology conferences and gastroenterology congresses on the topics of chronic viral hepatitis C and liver transplantation;
Lectures for students and doctors (trainees) on the topics of liver diseases, liver transplantation, haemochromatosis, chronic gastritis and gastropathy (Ménétrier’s disease), and gastrointestinal bleeding.
Professional development
2000 Hvidovre University Hospital, Denmark;
2000 Annual courses in gastrointestinal endoscopy, abdominal ultrasound, gastroenterology, and hepatology at Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine and Kaunas University of Medicine;
2010 Warsaw University Hospital, Poland.
Scientific publications
1998 J.Valantinas, A.Buivydienė, E.Bernotienė, G.Denapienė. “Multilocular cystic liver infiltration caused by alveolar echinococcus (Echinococcus alveolaris)”. Medicinos teorija ir praktika;
2007 A.Barauskienė, A.Laurinavičius, K.Strupas, A.Buivydienė, J.Valantinas. “Differential diagnosis of acute liver transplant rejection from biopsy”. Lietuvos chirurgija;
2010 M.Paškonis, L.Malašaitė, A.Buivydienė. J.Valantinas. “Orthotopic liver transplantation: The first experience and results of the Vilnius University Hospital Santariškių Klinikos. Annals of Transplantation”;
2012 E.Audronytė, D.Aksionova, I.Savlan, A.Buivydienė, D.Vitkus, V.Liakina. “Non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic viral hepatitis C”.
