Zulfiya Sukmarova, PhD, Specializing in cardiology, functional diagnostics, non-invasive ventilation, somnology Post-graduate training in general medicine and, subsequently, cardiology. The thesis for the PhD md in the Institute of Clinical Cardiology at the National Research Medical Center of Cardiology (Moscow). Internship and research: at Charité University Clinic Berlin (Projects concerned sleep breathing disorders in pts who underwent cardiotoracic surgery), in Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin (departments for heart surgery and out-patient centers for pts with congenial heart diseases. The Cheyne–Stokes respiration project for pts with the ventricular assist device), in Pulmonary Clinic at Lungenfachkrankenhaus Kloster Grafschaft, Germany (terminal respiratory failure, weaning). Working for the Medical Research and Educational Center at the Lomonosov MoscoState University. Currently, working as a cardiologist, specialist in functional diagnostics for a central military hospital.