DumÄius, Arimantas
Name: Arimantas Dumčius
Years active: 11/16/2012
Party: Homeland Union - Lithuanian Christian Democrat Political Group, Member (from 11/16/2012)
Roles
- Since 2012: Member of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats
- 2008–2012: Member, Committee on Education, Science and Culture
- 2008–2012: Deputy Chair, Commission for the Rights and Affairs of Participants of Resistance to Occupation Regimes and Victims of Occupation
- 2008–2012: Member, Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrat Political Group
- 2008–2012: Member, Seimas Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly
- 2008–2012: Member, Committee on Health Affairs
- 2008–2012: Chair, Commission for the Rights and Affairs of Participants of Resistance to Occupation Regimes and Victims of Occupation
- 2008–2012: Member, Seimas Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly
- 2004–2008: Deputy Chair, Committee on Human Rights
- 2004–2008: Member, Commission for Family and Child Affairs
- 2004–2008: Deputy Chair, Seimas Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of La Francophonie
- 2004–2008: Since 2004: Member of the Homeland Union (Lithuanian Conservatives); Member of the Council and Policy Committee
- 2002–2004: Member, Kaunas City Municipal Council
- 2002–2004: Chairman, Committee on Health
- 1995–2004: Member, Union of Lithuanian Political Prisoners and Deportees
- 1995–2004: Member, Society of Lithuanian Political Prisoners and Deportees
Education
- 1986: Professor
- 1977: Associate Professor
- 1958–1965: Kaunas Medical Institute (currently Lithuanian University of Health Sciences), Faculty of Therapeutic Medicine, Diploma of Physician
- 1955–1958: Kupiškis Secondary School
History
He was born on 4 January 1940 in Kaunas, Lithuania. Married with two children: a son and a daughter
Other activities: former Member of the Kaunas Council of the Lithuanian Reform Movement Sąjūdis, Member of the 2nd Sąjūdis Seimas; Chairman of the Lithuanian Association for the Protection of Human Rights (1991–2004); Honorary Chairman of the Association (since 2005); Signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Lithuania (1989)
Awards: Honorary Badge of Doctor of Merit of Lithuania; Medal of the Lithuanian Union of Retired Servicemen; Distinction Badge for Merits to the Safety of Citizens; Medal of the 10th Anniversary of the Lithuanian Reform Movement Sąjūdis; Distinction Badge by the 1st Regiment of the Public Security Service; Third Degree Insignia by the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union “Order for Merits to the Lithuanian Riflemen‘s Union”; prize for achievements in the field of medicine by the USA Lithuanian Foundation of Dr Antanas Razma (2003); the Republic of Lithuania Prize for the introduction of cardiac stimulation in Lithuanian medicine (1980); silver and bronze medals for promotion of medicine
Areas of research: surgical treatment of coronary disease, electric heart stimulation, experimental development of auxiliary heart
Publications: author and co-author of 329 scientific publications on medicine, 18 inventions, three books; author of over 200 articles and addresses; editor and compiler of the periodical Lietuvių tauta ir pasaulis (Lithuanian Nation and the World) (10 books); compiler of the publication Lietuva ir žmogaus teisės (Lithuania and Human Rights)
Foreign languages: French, Russian, English
Interests: health protection, bioethics, policy, gardening, bibliophily
Work experience:
- 1996–2004: Member, Senate of Kaunas University of Medicine
- 1994–2004: Professor, Clinic of Cardiac Surgery
- 1993–1994: Head, Kaunas University of Medicine, Clinic of Cardiac Surgery
- 1979–2004: Head, Kaunas University of Medicine, Biomedical Research Institute, Cardiovascular Surgery Laboratory
- 1966–2004: Surgery Assistant, Kaunas Medical Institute
- 1965–2004: Surgeon, Kaunas Clinical Hospital
