Curriculum Vitae

Vice-Minister Laimutė Vaidelienė completed her basic medical studies at Kaunas Medical Academy (now the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences), and later furthered her qualifications in Germany and the United Kingdom. In 2001, she defended her doctoral thesis on the clinical and diagnostic features of major allergic diseases in children. 

During her long academic career, L. Vaidelienė has published 11 textbooks and educational books, one encyclopaedia, dozens of teaching and methodological tools and other study literature, and more than fifty scientific articles.

L. Vaidelienė began her medical career as a paediatrician at the then Kaunas Dainava Polyclinic, then worked at the Children's Diseases Clinic of the Kaunas Clinics of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Hospital, where she headed the 1st Children's Diseases Department and the Children's Pulmonology Sector, and was a paediatrician, paediatric allergist and a paediatric pulmonologist for a decade prior to her appointment to become part of the team of Minister of Health, Marija Jakubauskienė. 

She is also a professor of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences and the head of the paediatric allergy and paediatric pulmonology residents. From 2014 to 2016, L. Vaidelienė held the position of Vice-Minister of Health, in charge of personal health care, optimisation and restructuring of the network of health care institutions, eHealth and others.

Vice-Minister Vaidelienė speaks English and Russian.