Ligita Jancoriene MD, PhD

Ligita Jancoriene, MD, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Clinic of Infectious Diseases and Dermatovenerology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Medical Faculty, Vilnius University, and an infectious diseases specialist and head of the Centre of Infectious Diseases of Vilnius University Hospital Santaros klinikos.

She graduated from Vilnius University Medical Faculty in 1989 and finished her residency in gastroenterology in 1993. Since 1996 she is working at the Vilnius University Hospital and since 1997 in Vilnius University, from Jun 2016 she is a Professor at Vilnius University. During her Ph.D. studies, she got clinical training in infectious diseases at Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden (1999-2003). In 2003 she defended her thesis in the field of treatment of chronic viral hepatitis C. In 2004 she received a license for medical practice in infectious diseases and gastroenterology. She attended the postgraduate courses on Travellers’ Health held at the Swiss Tropical Institute in Basel, Swiss; the course on Hepatology in Hepatobiliary School, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Zalcburg – Cornell Seminars on Infectious Diseases in Salzburg, Austria and international exchange program on chronic hepatitis C, in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. During her professional career, she also participated in clinical training and preceptorship programs in University hospitals in Sweden, Germany, France, Spain, and the USA. In 2010 in Boston, US, she passed the Certificate of Knowledge Examination developed by an international panel of travel medicine experts of the International Society of Travel Medicine and was granted a "Certificate in Travel Health" which recognizes individual excellence in knowledge in the field of travel medicine, associated with pre-travel care and consultation.

She is a member of the Lithuanian Society of Gastroenterology and a board member of the Lithuanian Society of Infectious Diseases. She is a member of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) and the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID). She is the author of 50 scientific articles from 28 journals listed in Clarivate Analytics Web of Science database with citation index; author and co-author of 4 medical textbooks and methodological monographs.