KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE

PROF. VAIVA LESAUSKAITĖ

MISSION OF KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE

The mission of KUM is the education and training of health professionals of international standards, modern research in health promotion, disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment, and the provision of the highest quality of specialized health care to the patients

MANAGERIAL STRUCTURE OF KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE

ACADEMIC COUNCIL SENATE STUDENTS COUNCIL

GENERAL INFRASTRUCTURESERVICES RECTOR’S OFFICE

GENERAL SERVICES FOREDUCATION AND RESEARCH

UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL COUNCILS

FACULTIES’ COUNCILS RESEARCH INSTITUTES’ COUNCILS

UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

DIRECTOR GENERALOBSERVER’S COUNCILMEDICAL COUNCILNURSING COUNCIL

FACULTIES

MEDICINEDENTISTRYPHARMACYNURSINGPUBLIC HEALTH

RESEARCH INSTITUTES

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCHCARDIOLOGYENDOCRINOLOGYPSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY & REHABILITATION

CLINICSUNITS

DEPARTMENTSCLINICS

LABORATORIES

UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF ONCOLOGY

THE COMMUNITY OF KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE

Group of the Community Faculties and departments

Institutes UniversityHospital

Total in the University

Professors 70 40 8 118

Assoc. professors 482 111 105 644

Teachers and researches without scientific degree

549 34 583

The rest of the personnel 635 166 2524 3325

Students 4507 4507

From them: interns and residents

697 697

From them: PhD students 208 208

From them: students seeking Bachelor or Master degree

3602 3602

Continuous studies specialists 4382 4382

Physicians 4 1003 1007

Nursing specialists 19 2333 2352

Community members in total 10571 374 5860 16805

Research programmes at KUM• FUNCTIONING MECHANISMS OF LIVING TISSUES

• PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES

• INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR HEALTH CARE

• EPIDEMIOLOGICAL, ECOLOGICAL, CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON BEHAVIOURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DETERMINANTS

• ENDOCRINOLOGY

• CARDIOLOGY

• GASTROENTEROLOGY

• PULMONOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY

• ONCOLOGY

• NEUROSCIENCE

• REHABILITATION AND NURSING

• EMERGENCY MEDICINE

• THE HEALTH OF WOMAN AND CHILD

• OPHTHALMOLOGY

• INFECTOLOGY

• ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL PATHOLOGY

• ELABORATION OF NOVEL MEDICATIONS AND SEARCH FOR THEIR MARKET

• Institute for Energy Nuclear medicine diagnosis and therapy

• Institute for Environment and SustainabilityEnvironment and Health

Looking forward collaboration with JRC.....

Causes of mortality

Background for collaboration with Institute of Energy

33,7%

29,7%

13,7%

9,6%

7,0%

6,3%

Background for collaboration with Institute of Energy

Distribution of oncological patients between Lithuanian cancer hospitals in 2003-2005

Kaunas University Hospital andUniversity Hospital of Oncology

Institute of Oncology of Vilnius University

Klaipėda

Panevėžys

Šiauliai

Vilnius University Hospital „Santariškių klinika“

Departments of Oncology and Radiology at Kaunas University Medicine

Linear accelerators Nuclear Medicine Department SPECTBrachytherapy facilities

Background for collaboration with Institute of Energy

Department of Oncology Physicians – 12 (4 Dr.Sc)

Department of Radiology Physicians 56

Sector of Nuclear medicine Physicians 5 (all of them Dr.Sc)

Background for collaboration with Institute for Enviroment and Sustainability

•Investigation of impact of heavy metals on the health

•Health Data Basis collected at the KUM

Background for collaboration with Institute for Enviroment and Sustainability

DEVELOPMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES (1966-2006)

1966 1970 1972 1974 1976 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002

Cross - sectional studies

2004

IHD register

Kaunas - Rotterdam intervention study

Multifactorial CHD prevention

Juvenile hypertension

Precursors of atherosclerosis

MONICA

Diabetes register

Stroke register

CINDI - cross sectional studies

HCSR

GP task prof.

HPH

HBSch

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