Prof. Algimantas Tamelis

Dean of Faculty of Medicine, Head of Department of Surgery, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania

Education and training

University medical education:
Kaunas University of Medicine (former Medical Institute)

Practical clinical training in gastrointestinal and colorectal surgery:
Kaunas University of Medicine (former Medical Institute); Research Institute of Proctology, Moscow, Russia; Bristol Royal Infirmary, UK; Lund University, Malmo General Hospital, Sweden; Strich School of Medicine, Loyola University, Chicago, USA; Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Holland.

Member of work group at Lithuanian Ministry of Health to harmonise training of doctors according EU directives.
Head of the project ”The aging gut: genetic and enteric nervous system alterations in intestinal diverticulosis”.
Head of group of Biomedicine specialists, project “Preparation of national concept in European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS): Methodologies of the harmonization of credits and development and implementation of learning outcomes-based curriculum”.
Head of group of Biomedicine specialists, project “Development of study fields’ descriptors regulating system (SKAR-2)”.