Areas of research and professional interest – paediatric neurology, especially infant, child and adolescent epilepsy, non-epileptic seizures, epilepsy management, gender differences, infectious and immune-mediated nervous system diseases, paediatric developmental disorders, rare neurological diseases.
Clinical experience
1991 – 1993 Vilnius University Children’s Hospital, Neonatal Infectious Diseases Department, nurse.
2002 – 2007 Vilnius University Children’s Hospital, Paediatric Centre, Consultant Paediatric Neurologist.
2008 – present Vilnius University Hospital Santariškės Clinics Branch, Paediatric Centre, Department of Paediatric Neurology, Senior Consultant Paediatric Neurologist.
2005 – 2006 Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine, Clinic of Children’s Diseases, Assistant.
2006 – 2014 Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine, Clinic of Children’s Diseases, Lecturer.
2014 – present Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine, Clinic of Children’s Diseases, Associate Professor.
2014 – present Baltic-American Therapy and Surgery Clinic, Paediatric Neurologist.
Professional development
Undertook professional development in paediatric epilepsy courses in Munich (Germany), Kiel (Germany), Granavollen (Norway), Eilat (Israel); paediatric neurology courses in Salzburg (Austria); postgraduate training courses at Vilnius University, Kaunas University of Medicine, and the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, as well as at Lithuanian and international scientific and practical conferences.
Research activity
2006 defended her doctoral thesis in the field of biomedical sciences (medicine) titled “Peculiarities of urinary magnesium, sodium and chloride excretion in adolescents with epilepsy (influence of gender and valproate therapy based on preclinical and clinical study data)” and was awarded a PhD in Biomedical Sciences.
Delivers presentations at Lithuanian and international scientific conferences, organises and conducts postgraduate medical training courses at Vilnius University: “Current Issues in Paediatric Neurology” and “Paediatric Epilepsy and Sleep Disorders”.
Published 26 scientific articles, 23 abstracts and poster presentations.
Memberships
Lithuanian Neurological Society.
Lithuanian Society of Paediatric Neurologists.
Lithuanian Society of Epileptology.
Lithuanian Paediatric Society.
