Chairman of Lithuanian Bioethics Committee, Assoc. Prof. and Head of the Department of Medical History and Ethics at Medical Faculty of Vilnius University.
Education:
1983, M.D., Medical Faculty of Vilnius University;
1993, Ph.D., Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law, Vilnius.

Career:
1983-1989, Medical Doctor at Vilnius Central Hospital;
1989-1993, Postgraduate student, Ethical Department, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Vilnius;
1993-1997, Lecturer of Medical Ethics, Medical Faculty of Vilnius University;
1993 “ present, Senior Researcher, Ethical Department, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Vilnius;
1995 “ present, Chairman of Lithuanian National Bioethics Committee;
1997 “ present, Associate Professor, Medical Faculty of Vilnius University;
2002 - present, Head of the Department of Medical History and Ethics, Medical Faculty of Vilnius University;

Other activities:
Member of the group of specialists (CJ-S-MI, 1996-1998), which drafted Recommendation on principles concerning the legal protection of incapable adults" (Council of Europe);
Member of the standing Bureau of the European Conference of National Ethics Committees, 1998 2001 (Council of Europe);
Member of the Board of the European Society for Philosophy and Health Care 2003-2005;
Lithuanian Bioethics Society (chairman);
2000 September “ December, Fulbright Scholar in Residence, Union College, Schenectady, USA;
Member of the Council of Europe Steering Committee on Bioethics (CDBI), since 2001;
Member of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO for a period 2002- 2005.

Staff
Asta Cekanauskaite is a Master of Philosophy. She is a senior specialist of the Lithuanian Bioethics Committee as well as an assistant professor at the Medical Faculty of Vilnius University responsible for teaching bioethics.
Vilma Lukaseviciene is a Bachelor in Rehabilitation and Nursing. She works as a specialist at the Lithuanian Bioethics Committee. At the same time she is finishing her Master‘s Degree studies in Law at the Law University of Lithuania.
Daiva Jakimauskiene is a Master of Philosophy. She is a Ph.D. student in Philosophy at The Institute of Culture, Philosophy and Arts in Vilnius as well as a staff member of the Lithuanian Bioethics Committee. She has also got a four years experience in teaching ethics at Vilnius Medical College.