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He was the only one to run for the competition and will replace long-term rector Remigijus Žaliūnas as of November 4.
The concept of the five-year program of activities of the University presented by the rector-elect aims to promote the internationality of LSMU and the openness to change and innovation.
“Today, I see the University as the main European university of health sciences for the prosperity of society, whose mission is to create, accumulate, systematize and disseminate scientific knowledge, the latest scientific and study achievements, teach and develop a creative, honest, enterprising, educated, healthy, independent and enterprising personality, to promote democracy and prosperity, to develop a healthy and educated society ”, says the rector-elect of LSMU.
R. Benetis is a long-term head of the Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic and the director of the Institute of Cardiology, he directed the first heart transplant operation in Kaunas two decades ago, in 2007, the first lung transplant operation and complex of heart and lung in the Baltic States. He has published almost half a thousand scientific articles and is awarded the Officer Cross of the Order of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas
R. Žaliūnas has led LSMU for two terms since 2010, prior to that he also led two terms for Kaunas Medical University, which after merging with the Lithuanian Veterinary Academy became LSMU.
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