CURRICULUM VITAE
IRENA NARKEVICIUTE, MD, PhD, Assoc. Prof.
Address
Santariskiu 4
LT-08406 Vilnius, Lithuania
Phone: +370 5 2720270
e-mail: irena.narkeviciute@mf.vu.lt
Current Position
- Associate professor of the Vilnius University Clinic of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine,
Vilnius University
- Chief ordinator of Dept. of Paediatric Pulmonology and Immunology of the Vilnius
University Children‘s Hospital
Education, postgraduate training and qualifications
1970 Graduated from Vilnius University (VU) Faculty of Medicine (physician-pediatrician)
1972 International immunology school (Sochi, Russia)
1974 Postgraduate training course on infectious diseases (VU)
1975 PhD thesis defended at the Kaunas Academia of Medicine
1976 Postgraduate training course on gastroenterology (VU)
1979 Postgraduate training course on pediatric intensive care (VU)
1981 Postgraduate training course on infectious diseases (2nd Moscow Institute of Medicine)
1982 Internship on children‘s diseases (Medical Academy Erfurt; University Medicine Berlin,
Charite, Germany)
1983 Postgraduate training course on pediatric pulmonology (VU)
1983 Associate professor, Dept. of Infectious diseases, Vilnius University
1985 Postgraduate training course on sepsis (Tbilisi Medical University, Georgia)
1988 Postgraduate training course on infectious diseases (Central postgraduate medical institute,
Moscow)
1991 Postgraduate training course on infectious diseases (Central postgraduate medical institute,
Moscow)
1993 Postgraduate training course on children‘s electrocardiology (VU)
1993 International immunology school (Palanga, Lithuania)
1994 Nordic Paediatric Association (NPA) postgraduate training course on children‘s diseases
(Uppsala University, Sweden)
1994 Licence of Medical Doctor-Pediatrician
1996 Internship on HIV infection and AIDS, infectious diseases (University of Padua, Italy)
1997 Postgraduate training course on children‘s allergic diseases (VU)
1999 Licence of Medical Doctor-Infectious diseases physician
1999 Postgraduate training course on immunoprophylaxis of infectious diseases (VU)
1999 ESCMID postgraduate training course on laboratory diagnostics of infectious diseases in
pregnancy (Berlin, Germany)
2000 NPA postgraduate training course on infectious diseases (Helsinki, Finland)
2000 NPA postgraduate training course on children’s diseases (Tampere, Finland)
2000 ESPGHAN postgraduate training course on pediatric gastroenterology (Vilnius, Lithuania)
2001 ESCMID postgraduate training course on management of nosocomial infections –
implications of antibiotic resistance (Antalya, Turkey)
2001 Licence of Medical Doctor-Pediatric pulmonologists
2002 Postgraduate training course on infectious diseases (Kaunas Academia of Medicine)
2002
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2009
2010
2011
Postgraduate training course on pediatric pulmonology (VU)
ESCMID postgraduate training course on measuring, auditing and improving antimicrobial
prescribing (Prague, Czech Republic)
Basics of pedagogy and distance learning (Kaunas Academia of Medicine)
Postgraduate training course on children's treatment of somatic diseases (VU)
ESCMID postgraduate training course on Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology
(Nice, France)
ICID postgraduate training course on infectious diseases (Lisbon, Portugal)
Postgraduate training course on children's intestinal infections and parasitic diseases of
contemporary diagnostic and treatment (VU)
ESCMID postgraduate training course on clinical microbiology and infectious diseases
(Munich, Germany)
Postgraduate training course on topical infections in children (VU)
Postgraduate training course on the most common childhood allergies and respiratory
infections, diagnosis and treatment (VU)
Investigator training program workshop (Vilnius)
ESCMID postgraduate training course on infectious diseases (Barcelona, Spain)
ESCMID postgraduate training course on clinical microbiology and infectious diseases
(Helsinki, Finland)
ESCMID postgraduate training course on infectious diseases (Vienna, Austria)
Postgraduate training course on selected acute abdominal disease diagnosis and treatment
(VU)
Work experience
1970 – 1978
Physician, Epidemiology, Microbiology and Hygiene Scientific Research
Institute, late Head of the Laboratory of Microbiology
1978 – 1991
Assistant lecture, late associate professor, Dept. of Infectious diseases, Faculty of
Medicine, Vilnius University
1992 – 1997
Pediatrician, Lithuanian AIDS Centre
1991 – 1994
Associate professor, Vilnius University Clinic of Children‘s Infectious Diseases
1994 – 2009
Associate professor, Vilnius University Centre of Pediatrics
2009 – present Associate professor, Vilnius University Clinic of Children’s Diseases
Membership
- Lithuanian Society of Pediatrics
- Lithuanian Society of Infectious Diseases
- Lithuanian Society of Pediatric Pulmonology
- European Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID)
- European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID)
Scientific interests, teaching, reviewing
- Pediatric, infectious diseases, respiratory tract infections, clinical microbiology, nosocomial
infections, antimicrobial therapy
- Course of Pediatric infectious diseases for medical students at the Vilnius University; course of Pediatric
infectious diseases and respiratory tract infections for postgraduate physicians at the Vilnius University.
- Reviewer on national and international journals of medicine
International scientific project
- 2003-2006 Respiratory virus research and diagnostics. The EU 6th program
Awards
- Vilnius Medical Society (1994, Vilnius) for the best implemented scientific work “Infectious
mononucleosis diagnosis identifying EBV DNA” into practice
- 6th International Congress for Infectious Diseases (1994, Prague) for the best epidemiological
study
Publications
More than 200 scientific publications on pediatric and adults infectious diseases, respiratory tract
infectious in Lithuanian and foreign medical journals. Chapters on pediatrics infectious diseases in
textbooks and family doctor guide
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