Surgeon Albertas Dauksa, MD, PhD

  • Performs about 350 operations per year
  • Has already performed over 2.000 thyroid operations
  • Also performs transplants, multi-organ operations, pancreas liver, stomach resections
  • Member of European Digestive Surgery (EDS)
  • Author of more than 75 publications
Professional education:
  • 2002 – graduated Kaunas University of Medicine.
  • 2002-2003 – primary residency at 3rd hospital of Kaunas.
  • 2003 – licence of General Practicioner.
  • 2003- 2008 – surgical residency at Kaunas University of Medicine.
  • 2008 – licence of General Surgery 
  • 2007-2008 staging in epigenetics research at University of Bonn, Germany (Prof. J. Oldenburg, Habil. Dr. O. El-Maarri).  Department of Radiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 2013 – defended PhD thesis “A Study of DNA Methylation in Peripheral Blood Leucocytes and Neoplastic Tissues of Patients with Pancreatic, Gastric and Ampullary Cancer” at Lithuanian University of Health Sciences.
Work experience:
  • 2002-2008 – assistant at Department of Physiology, Kaunas University of Medicine
  • 2008 – 2013 – assistant at Department of Surgery, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences.
  • 2008 – till now – surgeon, HPB and Endocrinology unit, Department of Surgery, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences.
  • 2008 – 2020 – research fellow at Laboratory of Surgical Gastroenterology, Institute for Digestive research, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences.
  • 2013 – 2020 – lector at Department of Surgery, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences.
  • 2020 – till now – senior researcher at Institute for Digestive research, LUHS
  • 2020 – till now – assoc. professor at Department of Surgery, Lithuanian University of Health Science
  • 2023 – till now – surgeon at Nordbaratric
Internship:
  • 2009 – Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 2013 – Department of Radiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 2015 – HPB unit, Casa di Cura Pederzoli, Peschiera del Garda, Italy
  • 2016 – Sarcoma center, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy
  • 2017 – Thyroid cancer center, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
  • 2021 – International Donor Surgery and Organ Preservation Masterclass (IDSOPM), Warsaw, Poland
Internship:
  • 2009 – Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 2013 – Department of Radiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 2015 – HPB unit, Casa di Cura Pederzoli, Peschiera del Garda, Italy
  • 2016 – Sarcoma center, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy
  • 2017 – Thyroid cancer center, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
  • 2021 – International Donor Surgery and Organ Preservation Masterclass (IDSOPM), Warsaw, Poland