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Rimantas Benetis

Rimantas Benetis PhD

Cardiac Surgery
Kaunas, Kaunas, Lithuania

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Rimantas Benetis is a cardiac surgeon and Professor, Rector of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Head of the Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, and Honorary Professor of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The professor was a leader of the cardiac surgery team which completed the first heart transplantation in Kaunas and the first lung and heart-lung transplantation in the Baltic States. He received the following awards: the Cross of the Officer of the Order for Merits to Lithuania, and the Cross of the Officer of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas. Professor is a member of the Lithuanian Society of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery, a member of the European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), a member of the European Valve Repair Group (EVRG), etc.
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