Imaging of coronary atherosclerosis with multi-slice computed tomography
Pundziūtė, G.
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Pundziūtė, G. (2009, March 19). Imaging of coronary atherosclerosis with multi-slice computed tomography. Retrieved from
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Curriculum Vitae
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CURRICULUM VITAE
The author of this thesis was born on April 7, 1976, in Kaunas, Lithuania. In 1994, she graduated from Kaunas J. Jablonskis secondary school in Kaunas, Lithuania. In 1994 she started studies of medicine in Kaunas University of Medicine, Kaunas, Lithuania.
During her undergraduate university studies she did part of her studies at the University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium, within the framework of EU Erasmus program. In 2000, she entered the postgraduate residency of cardiology in Kaunas Medical University Hospital, Kaunas, Lithuania. During her residency, she completed part of her clinical training in internal medicine at the University Hospital of Lille and Tourcoing, France, as well as training in clinical echocardiography at the University Hospital of Linköping, Sweden. In 2005, she received a qualification of cardiologist in Lithuania after which she was awarded a prestigious training fellowship grant from the European Society of Cardiology and the Huygens scholarship to proceed with scientific research in cardiovascular imaging with multi-slice computed tomography at the Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands (Prof. Dr. E. E. van der Wall). This fellowship was conducted under the supervision of Prof. Dr. J. J. Bax, Prof. Dr. J. W. Jukema, and Dr. J. D. Schuijf in cooperation with the Department of Radiology (Prof. Dr. A. de Roos).
Starting in 2007 (and continuing to the present), the author began a clinical fellowship in interventional cardiology at the Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. M. J. Schalij.
