Family Doctors

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jūratė Gudonytė

 

EDUCATION

• 1993–2000 – Medical studies, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences
• 2000–2004 – Family Medicine Residency, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences
• 2006–2011 – Doctoral studies, Neuroscience Institute at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences

WORK EXPERIENCE

• 2006–present – Family Doctor
• 2020–present – Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University
• 2012–2020 – Scientific Supervisor for Family Medicine Residents, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University
• 2015–2017 – Reviewer, The Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
• 2007–2013 – Junior Research Fellow, Neuroscience Institute at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY / AWARDS / RECOGNITION / ACHIEVEMENTS

• Vilnius University grant for the first Lithuanian popular science book in Braille “Apie diabetą – draugiškai ir (ne)paprastai”, 2023
• Winner of the Vilnius University Publishing competition for the popular science book “Aš ir mano diabetas”, 2020
• 1st place award (poster session) – 5th Cardiovascular Outcome Trials (CVOT) Summit of the Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease EASD Study Group, Munich, Germany, 2019
• “Travel Grant” – 5th CVOT Summit of the D&CVD EASD Study Group, Munich, Germany, 2019
• “Poster award and travel grant” – Academy for Clinical Debates and Controversies in Medicine during the 7th CODHy EU, Sorrento, Italy, 2019, to the 7th Asia Pacific CODHy, Shanghai, China, 2019
• “Bursary Award” – International Review of Psychosis & Bipolarity (IRPB) Conference, Rome, Italy, 2016
• Grant by the Research Council of Lithuania for the project “The impact of metabolic syndrome and mental disorders on mortality data in primary care patients” (2011–2013)
• Travel grant – II International Congress on Dual Disorders, Barcelona, 2011
• Young Scientist / Travel Grant – 10th WFSBP Congress, Prague, 2011
• Young Scientist / Travel Grant – 9th WFSBP Congress, Paris, 2009
• “PhD Student of the Year 2007” (Kaunas University of Medicine) – 2nd place
• Fellowship for the most active PhD student, 2007–2009, Lithuanian State Studies Foundation
• “Poster Prize”, 64th Annual Scientific Conference of the American Psychosomatic Society, Denver, CO, USA, 2006
• “Top Prize for Best Poster” – travel grant to the 58th Annual Convention of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, San Francisco, USA, 2003; III Baltic Regional Symposium of Biological Psychiatry, Klaipėda–Palanga, 2002
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jūratė Pečeliūnienė is actively involved in scientific work: more than 180 scientific and popular science publications, co-author of monographs and educational books, and compiler of popular science publications.

LANGUAGES

Lithuanian, English, Russian, Polish. Basics of Spanish and Estonian.