Algirdas Utkus

Algirdas Utkus is the Dean of Faculty of Medicine of Vilnius University, the Head of the Department of Human and Medical Genetics, the Chair of the Lithuanian Society of Human Genetics and of the Vilnius Medical Society, a member of the European Society of Human Genetics. Since 2017 he is a member and since November 11, 2021 till present chairperson of the National Health Council of Republic of Lithuania and a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Medical Schools in Europe. Since 2012, he is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Laboratorinė medicina (Laboratory Medicine) and Sveikatos mokslai (Health Sciences). On December 4th, 2016 Professor A. Utkus was awarded for merits in science, the most honorable award of the city of Vilnius - St. Christopher statuette, awarded for merit in education, science, culture, art and other works. A. Utkus received professional training in Lithuania and abroad: at the Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA); the Salt Lake City University Hospital’s Division of Medical Genecs (Salt Lake City, USA); Wisconsin University’s Cysc Fibrosis Center and the Waisman Center (Madison, USA); the Postgraduate Medical Institute (Moscow, Russia); the Department of Medical Genetics at the Hôpital de la Timone (Marseille, France); the Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic of Vilnius University; the Children’s Hospital in Vilnius, served as vising professor at Department of Pediatrics the University of Utah (Utah, USA). A. Utkus main research interests are in the areas of rare hereditary diseases of the nervous and muscle systems, teratogenesis, and chromosomal abnormalities, clinical and segregation analysis of cleft lip and/or palate; and biological asymmetry.