Gintaras Pikūnas

General & Abdominal Surgeon · Specialist in Hernia and Abdominal Wall Reconstruction

Specialization: complex abdominal wall and hernia surgery — including giant ventral hernias, abdominal wall reconstruction and minimally invasive (laparoscopic, endoscopic) hernia repair.

Areas of work: consultations and surgical treatment of primary and incisional hernias, abdominal wall reconstruction (open or minimally invasive), endoscopic repair of rectus diastasis, laparoscopic gallbladder surgery, and combined hernia–abdominoplasty procedures.

General & Hernia Surgeon

Performs around 500 surgeries per year, of which about 300 are hernia repairs. Recognised for treating complex and giant ventral hernias using both open and minimally invasive approaches.

• ~500 surgeries per year; ~300 hernia repairs
• Uses open, laparoscopic and endoscopic techniques (TAPP, TEP, eTEP, TARM, TAR, SILS, Rives–Stoppa)
• Among the first in Lithuania to perform endoscopic rectus diastasis repair

Work and education

• 2011 — Graduated from Kaunas University of Medicine
• 2010–2012 — General Surgeon, Alytus V. Kudirka Hospital
• 2013–2017 — General Surgeon, Kaunas Oncology Hospital
• 2017 — Completed General Surgery Residency, Kaunas
• 2018–present — General Surgeon, Raseiniai District Hospital (Director since 2023)
• 2020–present — General Surgeon, Gijos Clinics (Kaunas)

Scientific activities

• Speaker at Lithuanian and international conferences on herniology and abdominal wall reconstruction
• Presenter at “Herniologijos ir pilvo chirurgijos aktualijos” and “Pilvo sienos išvaržų gydymas Lietuvoje”
• Introduced and promoted new minimally invasive abdominal wall techniques in Lithuania
• Participant in a multicentre study on drainage after abdominal wall hernia repair; co-author on studies of recurrent diaphragmatic hernia treatment outcomes

Membership at organizations

• Lithuanian Surgeons Association — member
• Lithuanian Society for Minimally Invasive Surgery — member
• Kaunas Regional Surgeons’ Society — member
• European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES) — member
• Lithuanian Hernia Surgery Society — founding member, board member

Areas of work

• Complex and giant ventral hernia repair
• Primary and incisional abdominal wall hernia surgery
• Abdominal wall reconstruction (open or minimally invasive)
• Endoscopic repair of rectus diastasis
• Laparoscopic gallbladder surgery
• Combined hernia and abdominoplasty procedures

Surgeon speaks fluent english and lithuanian languages.