Education: Privolzhskiy Research Medical University, General Medicine (1987); accreditation in the specialties "Obstetrics and gynecology", "Ultrasound diagnostics"  

Research area: precancerous and cancerous diseases of the cervix associated with urogenital infection.
Dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Medical Sciences: "The state of the cervix and fetal bladder on the eve of urgent labor" (2001)