Raimundas Alekna (born on 16 April 1959), is a Lithuanian politician, psychiatrist psychotherapist, and former athlete who served as the Mayor of Vilnius from 2010 to 2011. He also served as the Minister of Health from 1999 to 2000.
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Biography
Alekna was born on 16 April 1959.
Between 1976 and 1980, he was part of the Lithuanian national athletics team. A fracture in her right arm healed sufficiently and Alekna was no longer able to compete as a decathlon athlete.
After graduating from the sports boarding school in 1977, Alekna was only admitted to study medicine after the third attempt to apply in 1979.
In 1985, Alekna completed his studies at the Medical Institute in Kaunas, and in 1986 he completed his internship in psychiatry, and became a physician psychiatrist.
From 1986 to 1988, he was part of the Panevezys City Ambulance Station and Panevezys Hospital Psychiatrist. From 1988 he was the head of the psychoneurology department of the polyclinic, and from 1990 he was an assistant at the psychiatry clinic of the Kaunas Medical Academy.
From 1990 to 1992 he was an assistant at the Psychiatry Clinic of the Kauno medicinos akademija.
Between 1992 and 1995, he was the Non-full chief psychiatrist of the Panevezys region.