Profiles
MD Rūta Morkūnienė
Education:
- Vilniaus universitetas / Vilnius University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Medicine
2016 – ongoing - Anthropometric assessment of body size, evaluation of growth, and longitudinal study of long-term physical and health outcomes of preterm newborns in Lithuania.
- Vilniaus universitetas / Vilnius University
Doctor of Medicine - MD
Medicine
2006 – 2012
Work experience:
- 2009–2012 Health care assistant
Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos, Vilnius (Lithuania) - 2012–2016 Resident doctor
Vilnius University Children‘s Hospital, Vilnius (Lithuania) - 2013–2015 University research assistant
Clinic of Children‘ diseases, Vilnius University, Vilnius (Lithuania) - From 2015 – Junior assistant
Department of Anatomy, Histology and Anthropology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences,
Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius (Lithuania) - From 2021 - ESR's Representative at Steering Committee of H2020-WIDESPREAD-05-2020 – Twinning, MotherNet, developing a New Network of Researchers on Contemporary European Motherhood
Grants and Awards:
- A grant of Sophie Valentina Ambroza for developing and expanding medical science both at
Vilnius University and in the international scientific field in 2011. - H2020-WIDESPREAD-05-2020 – Twinning, MotherNet, developing a New Network of Researchers on Contemporary European Motherhood
ESR's Representative at Steering Committee
Funding agency - European Commision
Research institution - Vilnius University
Secondary institutions - National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and Uppsala University, Sweden
Publications:
- Morkūnienė, Rūta; Isakova, Jelena; Jakimavičienė, Eglė Marija; Drazdienė, Nijolė; Basys, Vytautas; Tutkuvienė, Janina. The distribution of newborn head circumference: an example for the evolutionary fixed developmental mechanisms? // Acta medica Lituanica. Vilnius : Lietuvos mokslų akademijos leidykla. ISSN 1392-0138. eISSN 2029-4174. 2018, vol. 25, suppl. p. 37.
- Jakimavičienė, Eglė Marija; Tutkuvienė, Janina; Isakova, Jelena; Morkūnienė, Rūta; Drazdienė, Nijolė; Basys, Vytautas. Changes in total number of births and birth size during the 1995-2013: the reflection of socio-economic fluctuations in Lithuania? // Collegium antropologicum. Zagreb : Croatian Antropological Society. ISSN 0350-6134. 2017, Vol. 41, no 2, [p. 1-12].
- Tutkuvienė, Janina; Morkūnienė, Rūta; Bartkutė, Karolina; Drazdienė, Nijolė. Body size of newborns in relation to mother's ethnicity and education: a pilot study from Vilnius city (Lithuania), 2005-2010 // Anthropologischer Anzeiger. Stuttgart : E. Schweizerbart Science Publishers. ISSN 0003-5548. 2011, vol. 68, no. 4, p. 471-484. DOI: 10.1127/0003-5548/2011/0162.
- Jakimavičienė, Eglė Marija; Bartkutė, Karolina; Morkūnienė, Rūta; Drąsutienė, Gražina Stanislava; Tutkuvienė, Janina. Individo sveikatos programavimas perinataliniu laikotarpiu / Perinatal health programming // Laboratorinė medicina. Vilnius : Lietuvos laboratorinės medicinos draugija. ISSN 1392-6470. 2011, t. 13, nr. 4, p. 212-224.