BirutÄ— SkerlienÄ—

Biography

1973 Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the Vilnius University Pediatrics. 1980-1985 He was a researcher at the Department of Pediatrics at the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Lithuania, 1985-1991. - Clinical Research Department of the Mother and Child Health Research Institute of the Lithuanian Ministry of Health, 1991-1998. Vilnius University School of Children's Hospital, Clinical Research Division, 1998-2002 - Vilnius University Medical Faculty Pediatric Center, since 2002 - Vilnius Children's Clinic, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University. From 2013 He works at the Children's Hospital Pediatric Center in the Department of Pediatric Neurology at the Department of Children's Diseases. Qualification awarded: 1983 Central Institute for Traumatology and Orthopedics (CITO), 1985 Institute of Rheumatology, Academy of Sciences, 1986 Institute of Genetics at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow; 1998 and 2013 - Vilnius Pediatric Clinic, Faculty of Medicine, 2004 University Hospital Paris Hopital Necker-Enfants Malades in Paris, 2006 Heidelberg Children's Diseases at Heidelberg University, 2008 Freiburg University Clinic of Children's Clinic, Clinical Research Center in Freiburg, 2000 and 2013. - Vilnius University Medical Faculty Neurology Clinic. 1985 He defended a biomedical doctoral dissertation "The frequency of low dysplasia of children's connective tissue, the clinic and peculiarities of joint damage". Participates in the research work of the Clinic of Children's Diseases of the Faculty of Medicine of Vilnius University "Regulation of Causes and Consequences of Childhood Diseases, Traumas and Congenital Anomalies". There are Lithuanian pediatricians, pediatricians from Vilnius, Lithuanian children's gastroenterologists and nutritionists,  Lithuanian children's cardiologists, Lithuanian neurophysiologists' associations and the Lithuanian Association of Rheumatologists, as well as the Baltic Metabolic Group and the Society for the Study of Inborn Circulatory Diseases Member of the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism (SSIEM).

Research Interest

Children's metabolic diseases; nervous and muscular systems that damage metabolic diseases; children's inherited connective tissue and neuromuscular diseases.