Dr. Dalia Giedrimiene, MD, PhD established the Honorary Consulate of Lithuania in Connecticut in February 2025, after having been selected and appointed to this role by the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2024. Originally from Alytus, Lithuania, she has settled in Newington, Connecticut.

Dr. Giedrimiene is a cardiologist by training, having graduated from the Kaunas Medical Institute with honors. She spent the first 15 years after graduating at the Kaunas Academic Hospital’s Cardiology Intensive Care Department, and from 1992 onwards, has been engaged with academia in the US. Dr. Giedrimiene is a leading researcher in the fields of cardiology and electrophysiology, specifically regarding cardiac arrhythmias, preventative cardiology, and women’s health. She lends her talents to the University of St. Joseph in Hartford where she is a tenured professor of medicine, biology, and pharmaceutical sciences. She also spent 25 years at Hartford Hospital, where she focused on arrhythmias, heart failure, and implantable devices, and partnered with Medtronic, Inc. on multiple projects. She has also been affiliated with Yale University and Quinnipiac University, and is a co-author of more than 200 scientific publications, author of five textbooks and eight teaching aids, and also a reviewer of over 10 teaching textbooks. 

Since her first arrival in the US in 1991, Dr. Giedrimiene has been proud to represent Lithuania in all of her endeavors. During Lithuania’s early days of reestablished independence, she served as president of the Council of Young Scientists of Lithuania and was among the first Lithuanian doctors to participate in an international congress. Dr. Giedrimiene also joined the activities of the Lithuanian American Community of the United States (LAC) and was elected to the LAC Council from 2003-2009 and 2021-2024, as well as the Council of the World Lithuanian Community (WLC), in which she held the role of Vice President for Social Affairs from 2006-2009. She was also a Member of the Commission of the Lithuania Seimas (Lithuanian Parliament) from 2003-2009. Presently, she is a Member of the WLC Seimas and the LAC Council, on the board of the American Lithuanian Medical Association, and the editor of the cardiology section of the journal Medicina from the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LUHS).

Since 2006, D. Giedrimiene has been the president of the Baltic- New England Development Network (BALTNET) organization, whose mission is to expand the visibility of Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia in the US and to find means and ways for academic, economic, and cultural cooperation between medical and scientific institutions. BALTNET, as a member of the Connecticut MetroHartford Alliance, participates in international communication forums and organizes cooperation and partnership-based visits between the US and the Baltics.