Professor, habilitated doctor Vytautas Usonis
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Vytautas Usonis is currently the Head of the Vilnius University Clinic of Paediatrics and Deputy Director of Vilnius University Children Hospital.
He graduated in 1974 from Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine as a physician/paediatrician. Between 1974 and 1989 he worked as an Assistant Lecturer for the Department of Infectious Diseases at Vilnius University where he returned in 1981 after completing his PhD at the 2nd Moscow Institute of Medicine. In 1988 he became Associate Professor at Vilnius University and later Head of the university’s clinic of children’s infectious diseases. Since 2009 Vytautas Usonis has been Head of the Vilnius University Clinic of Paediatrics.
He has been a board member of the European Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID).
The Chairman of the National Committee for Poliomyelitis Eradication Certification in Lithuania
And a board member of the National Board on Immunisation of Lithuania.
He is a member of the European Academy of Paediatrics (CESP) and has been Chair of the Board, Baltic Immunoprophylaxis Association since 2009. He was President of the Lithuanian Paediatric Society (LPS) 2000 to 2007 retiring after two terms according to the Constitution of the Society. He has since been the Vice-President and board member. From 1997 to 2003 he was President of the UNICEF National Committee of Lithuania.
Vytautas Usonis is an expert on vaccine-related issues at the European Disease Control Centre (ECDC). He is on the editorial boards of a number of national and international scientific journals as well as being a member of the international vaccination advisory and working groups.
He has had more than 100 publications on paediatric infectious diseases published in English, Russian and Lithuanian languages including textbooks and chapters in textbooks on paediatric infectious diseases, vaccine preventable diseases and vaccinology, rotavirus infection, paediatric HIV infection. He is interested in scientific teaching and is leading a course on paediatric infectious diseases for medical students at the Vilnius University; a course on paediatric infectious diseases for postgraduate physicians at Vilnius University and a course on vaccinology for postgraduate physicians at the Vilnius University. He has also been a tutor of Oxford University’s Postgraduate Diploma in Paediatric Infectious Diseases.
