dr. Irina Arechvo
ENT physician, doctor of medical science
She began studying medicine at Vilnius University in 1996. In 2015 she defended her doctoral dissertation magna cum laude at TU Dresden. She has worked in ear surgery at Vilnius University Hospital since 2006.
Career
Vilnius, Dresden, and back to the operating table at RVUL.
Career
General medicine studies at Vilnius University.
Internship at Vilnius University.
ENT residency at Vilnius University. Qualified as an ENT physician in 2006, licence MPL-08418.
ENT physician in the ENT department of Vilnius University Hospital (RVUL). 2026 marks twenty years in the department.
Doctoral studies at TU Dresden, Germany, at the Ear Research Center Dresden, in the Zahnert and Bornitz research group.
Defended her doctoral dissertation magna cum laude: "New flexible total ossicular replacement prostheses with a joint." Recognised by the Research Council of Lithuania in 2016.
ENT physician at Kardiolita (now Meliva) clinics.
Consults at Hila medical diagnostics and treatment centre and at the Baltic-American Clinic (BAK) in Vilnius. Chair of the Vilnius ENT Association.
RVUL began performing fully endoscopic ear surgery, which she leads. She became a member of the International Working Group for Endoscopic Ear Surgery (IWGEES) and co-organised the international conference "Innovate the ENT 2024".
Training
Six countries, one focus: the ear.
Training and continuing education
She has trained and completed observerships in the USA, Germany, the UK, Austria, Slovakia, and China.
She regularly speaks at Lithuanian ENT conferences and gave the opening address at the Vilnius ENT Association conferences in 2022 and 2023.
Science
Ossicular chain prostheses, temporal bone pathology, cholesteatoma imaging.
Publications and research
Ossicular chain prostheses, temporal bone pathology, cholesteatoma imaging. Member: EAONO, IWGEES (International Working Group for Endoscopic Ear Surgery, since 2024), chair of the Vilnius ENT Association.
Booking
Consults in four locations across Vilnius and Kaunas
Addresses, phone numbers, and booking links are on the contact page.