Professional education
1964 - 1970 Faculty of medicine, Vilnius University

Qualification
1999 License of psychiatrist (according new regulations in Lithuania)
The highest qualification degree of psychiatrist

Post graduate training
1970- More than 70 training courses and seminars in psychosocial re-habilitation, art therapy, and other areas, in total (in former USSR: Crimea - 1983, St.Petersburg - 1987, Minsk - 1990, Moscow - 1991)
1992,1993,1996 Training in psychosocial re-habilitation in Psychiatric Clinic of Krakow University, Medical Faculty, Poland
1996 Training in psychosocial re-habilitation in Psychiatric Hospital of Warsaw Medical Academy, Poland

Professional experience
Since 1970 Doctor psychiatrist, Vilnius Republican Psychiatric Hospital
Since 1984 Chief of ward, Vilnius Republican Psychiatric Hospital
1991-1998 Lecturer and teacher, Psychiatric clinics, Vilnius University
1999-2001 Lecturer and teacher, Re-habilitation clinics, Vilnius University
Since 1993 Founder and chairman of the non-governmental organization Club 13&Co.
Since 1993 Founder and manager of art therapy studio Paukštė (The Bird) in Vilnius Republican Psychiatric Hospital
Since 1998 Founder, publisher and editor of the newspaper The News of the Club 13&Co.
Since 1997 Manager of different Club'projects (informing the society, publishing, patients' advocacy, vocational therapy, etc.)

Membership and other information
Since 1971 Member of the Lithuanian Psychiatrist Association
1999-2001 Member of the Council and one of the founders of the Association of Psychosocial Re-habilitation
Since 1999 Member of NGAT (Networking Group of Art Therapists)
Constant participator of conferences and seminars on psychosocial re-habilitation and similar subjects, and author of reports in Lithuania
The author of more than 60 scientific and popular articles and presentations on diagnostics in psychiatry, psychosocial rehabilitation, art of mental patients, art therapy, patients' movements, patients' rights. The author of two chapters in book Psychiatry for medical students. Main conferences, in which D.Survilaite presented the papers, are: 4-th ECARTE conference in London (1997), 7-th in Madrid (2003); World Psychosocial Rehabilitation Congresses in Hamburg (1998), Paris (2000); GAMIAN-Europe Annual Conventions - in Malta (2001), Tallinn (2004); Health Promoting Hospitals Conferences in Kopenhagen (2001), Bratislava (2002), Moscow (2004).