Head of the National Cancer Institute

Valdas Pečeliūnas (MD, PhD, Associate Professor) is currently the Director of the National Cancer Institute. He began his medical career as a hematologist at the Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit of Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Clinics in 2004 and has been working there ever since.

He is a board member of several professional organizations, including the European Hematology Association, the Lithuanian Hematology Society, and the Nordic Myeloma Study Group. Valdas has more than 10 years of healthcare management experience. Before his current position, Valdas served as the Head of the Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation Unit, Head of the Specialized Care of Immunocompromised Patients Unit, and from 2020 to 2023, he was the Medical Director at VUL Santaros Clinics. He has been teaching medical students since 2005 and became an associate professor at Vilnius University in 2020. Valdas is also active in cancer research, with 50 publications to his credit in Clarivate WoS.

His fields of interest include medicine (hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, plasma cell disorders), and healthcare management (health data utilization in decision-making, clinical quality).