Natalia Leonidovna Kunelskaya

Advisor to the Director
Honoured Scientist of the Russian Federation
Professor

Her main field of research is the development and improvement of the diagnosis and treatment strategy for cochleovestibular disorders.

1988 — junior research fellow, Laboratory of Ear Labyrinth Pathology at the Department of ENT Diseases, Faculty of General Medicine, N.I. Pirogov Moscow State Medical Institute (Order of Lenin)
1995 — assistant at the Department of ENT Diseases, Faculty of General Medicine, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University
2006 — Professor at the Department of ENT Diseases, Faculty of General Medicine, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University
2006 to date — Deputy Director for Research, L.I. Sverzhevsky Research and Clinical Institute of Otorhinolaryngology, Moscow Healthcare Department
2026 — Advisor to the Director, L.I. Sverzhevsky Research and Clinical Institute of Otorhinolaryngology, Moscow Healthcare Department

1980 — graduated from the N.I. Pirogov Second Moscow State Medical Institute (Order of Lenin), specialty “General Medicine”;
1980–1982 — clinical residency at the N.I. Pirogov Second Moscow State Medical Institute (Order of Lenin), specialty “ENT diseases”;
1982–1985 — postgraduate (PhD) studies at the Department of ENT Diseases, Faculty of General Medicine, N.I. Pirogov Moscow State Medical Institute (Order of Lenin)
1986 — defended a thesis for the degree of Candidate of Medical Sciences on the topic: “Acute sensorineural hearing loss (clinical and otoneurological aspects)”
1995 — defended a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences on the topic: “Cerebral blood circulation and sensorineural hearing loss (clinical, audiological and angiographic studies)”
1997 — awarded the academic title of Professor
2018 — awarded the title of Honoured Medical Worker of Moscow by decree of the Mayor

2004 — professional retraining under the programme “Audiology and Otorhinolaryngology”, Russian State Medical University, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation;
2008 — professional retraining under the programme “Healthcare Organization and Public Health”, Russian State Medical University (Roszdrav);
2010 — advanced training course in “Audiology and Otorhinolaryngology”, Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation;
2011 — advanced training course in “Otorhinolaryngology”, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University;
2013 — advanced training under the programme “Healthcare Organization and Public Health”, Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation;
2015 — advanced training course in “Audiology and Otorhinolaryngology”, Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
2016 — advanced training course in “Otorhinolaryngology”, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia;
2016 — “Psychological and pedagogical foundations of higher medical education” — advanced training certificate, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University
2017 — professional retraining under the programme “Lecturer in Higher Education”, Institute for the Development of Continuing Professional Education;
2019 — advanced training under the programme “Healthcare Organization and Public Health”, Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
2019 — certificate “Healthcare Organization and Public Health”, Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
2020 — advanced training course in “Audiology and Otorhinolaryngology”, Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russia;
2020 — advanced training course in “Otorhinolaryngology”, A.I. Yevdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation;
2020 — advanced training course “Audiology and Otorhinolaryngology”, Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
2020 — advanced training course “Current issues in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 coronavirus infection”, Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
2021 — advanced training course “Specific aspects of the treatment and management of patients with viral pneumonia caused by COVID-19”, Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
2021 — advanced training course “Hereditary hearing disorders”, Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
2023 — advanced training course “Information basics of teaching first aid rules”, Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
2023 — advanced training course “Fundamentals of audiology”, Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
2026 — advanced training course “Audiology and Otorhinolaryngology”, Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

596 scientific publications, including 29 monographs and 11 manuals for physicians and medical students
63 author’s certificates and Russian Federation patents for inventions
45 sets of methodological and clinical guidelines
Twelve candidate theses and one doctoral thesis have been defended under her supervision.
She is extensively involved in teaching.

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2019)
Vice-President of the Moscow Association of Otorhinolaryngologists
Member of the Expert Council on Surgical Sciences of the Higher Attestation Commission (HAC)
Member of the Otorhinolaryngology Commission of the RAS Expert Council on the Modernization and Innovative Development of Medical Science
Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Vestnik Otorinolaringologii” (Bulletin of Otorhinolaryngology)
Member of the editorial boards of a number of high-ranking medical journals (“Head and Neck”, “Russian Medical Journal (RMJ)”, “Lechebnoe Delo”)