Lithuanian Society of General Practitioners
Lithuanian Society of General Practitioners (LSGP) is a professional association
representing family doctors in the Lithuania. The Lithuanian Society of General
Practitioners was founded on 9 December 2002 and is based in Santariskiu 2, Vilnius.
The primary aim of our society is to serve the patient and the general practitioner
by encouraging and maintaining the highest standards of general medical practice.
It is the representative organisation on education, training and standards in general
practice. The LSGP is the recognised body for the accreditation of specialist training
in general practice in Lithuania.
LSGP COUNCIL MEMBERS
Vida Čirbienė,
Rūta Dovydaitienė,
Aušra Gudaitytė,
Danutė Kalibatienė,
Vytautas Kasiulevičius,
Barbara Komarovska,
Andrius Mikelionis,
Irena Marozienė,
Edita Šiaudikytė,
Skaidrė Paulauskienė.
Lina Vencevičienė,
Algimantas Vingras,
Eglė Žėbienė.
The Council is the decision-making body of the Society.
The President
Vytautas Kasiulevicius, PhD, assoc. professor of Clinic of Internal diseases, family
medicine and oncology, Medical Faculty, Vilnius University,
Address: Santariskiu 2, Vilnius, Lithuania
Tel: +370 – 5 - 2365192, fax: +370 – 5 - 2365191,
e-mail: vytautas.kasiulevicius@gmail.com
The Vice President:
Vida Cirbiene, assistant of Clinic of Internal diseases, family medicine and oncology,
Medical Faculty, Vilnius University,
Address: Santariskiu 2, Vilnius, Lithuania
e-mail: vida.sanitas@freemail.lt
The Honorary Secretary:
Ausra Gudaityte,
Adress: Family medicine center “ Link sveikatos”
Kreivasis skg. 1, Vilnius, Lithuania
e-mail: gudaityte@gmail.com
European General Practice Research Network congress
Dear friends and colleagues,
It is great pleasure for the Lithuanian Society of General Practitioners and the Clinic of
Internal diseases, Family Medicine and Oncology of the Vilnius University to welcome
you at the European General Practice Research Network congress in Vilnius,
Lithuania. This Congress will provide a forum for addressing mental health issues and
developing links between health professionals, consumers, carers and the community. In
a general-practice surgery, every third or fourth patient seen has some form of mental
disorder. Levels of disability among primary care patients with such disorders are high;
greater on average than disability among primary care patients with common chronic
diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, arthritis and back pain. Simple effective
treatment is available for many mental disorders and some can be treated more
effectively than hypertension or coronary heart disease. Despite this, mental health care is
not easy task for family medicine. This congress aims to discuss this problem. We
warmly welcome everybody to the EGPRN meeting. We hope to meet you all in Vilnius,
the capital of Lithuania. It is also the largest city of the country. Staying several days in
September will be sufficient to make you fall in love with Vilnius. The historical centre
of Vilnius, the Old Town, is one of the largest old town centres in Eastern Europe. We
invite you to see one of the oldest tertiary educational institutions in Europe - Vilnius
University. Since its establishment in the 16th century, Vilnius University, as an integral
part of European science and culture has embodied the concept of a classical university
and the unity of studies and research. The Faculty of Medicine of Vilnius University is
the oldest higher educational establishment of medicine in Lithuania which was set up in
1781. The faculty is one of the largest ones in Vilnius University. At the beginning of the
19th century, the Faculty of Medicine became one of the most prominent institutions of
medical research and studies in Eastern Europe. Professors of the faculty included such
world celebrities as L. Bojanus, J. Sniadecki and father and son Frank. Currently, the
faculty comprises 5 departments, 2 institutes, 15 clinics with 45 centres and laboratories
as well as a library. One of research topics of Clinic of Internal diseases, family medicine
and oncology of Vilnius University is mental health. So we believe that it will be a good
starting point for our discussion in Vilnius meeting.
We look forward to seeing you in Vilnius in September !
Ausra Gudaityte
National Representative of EGPRN-Lithuania
Virginijus Sapoka
Head of Clinic of Internal diseases, family medicine and oncology
Vytautas Kasiulevicius
President of Lithuanian Society of General practitioners
Dear EGPRN-members,
Please find enclosed the second announcement and the Call for Abstracts for the
next EGPRN-meeting. This meeting is one month ahead our usual time. From 27-30
September 2007 in Vilnius-Lithuania. Therefore the deadline to send in abstracts is
one month earlier as well.
Deadline to send in abstracts is 15 June next by webapplication:
http://vilnius.egprnapplicationforms.nl
With best regards,
Hanny Prick
EGPRN Coordination
P.O. Box 616 - 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
Phone: +31-43-388-2319
Fax: +31-43-367-1458
E-mail: hanny.prick@hag.unimaas.nl
Website: www.egprn.org