Birutė Tumienė

Since 2005 Birutė Tumienė is a member of the Society for Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism, SSIEM, since 2006 she is one of the founders and a board member of the Baltic Society of Inherited Metabolic Diseases (Baltic Metabolic Group). She received professional training in traineeships in the Institute for Medical Genetics, University of Ljubljana Medical Centre(Slovenia), Service d’ Endocrinologie, Maladies Osseuses, Génétique et Gynécologie Médicales, CHU de Toulouse (France), National Centre for Inherited Metabolic Disorders, Dublin (Ireland), St Radboud Universitety Hospital, Department of Inherited Metabolic Diseases (the Netherlands), Amsterdam VU Medical Centre, Laboratory for Inherited Metabolic Disorders (the Netherlands), Children Memorial Health Institute, Department of Inherited Metabolic Diseases (Poland), SSIEM Academy Courses in Lisbon (Portugal) and Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Her current interests include metabolic epilepsies.