Former Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania Dainius Pavalkis has been named the first Provost of the Kazakh National Medical University.

As a provost Pavalkis will be responsible for academic, research and clinical activities.

Professor Pavalkis is a graduate of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences and Clinical Residency of the Moscow Research Institute of Proctology. In 1986-2012 he was a practicing surgeon proctologist. He served as the Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania in 2012-2015. Professor Pavalkis also worked at Kaunas Clinics and was advisor to Kaunas Mayor.