Graduated in 1989 from the 1st Moscow Medical Institute with a degree in General Medicine. In 1990 she did an internship in therapy at the Department of Internal Diseases of the 1st Moscow Medical Academy and in 2009 she did an internship at the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Moscow State Medical Institute. She worked as a rheumatologist at the Moscow City Arthrological Hospital from 1990 to 1995. Doctor-rheumatologist at the Department of Rheumatology of the Moscow City Clinical Hospital No. 23 from 1995 to 2008. From 2008 to now she is the head of the polyclinic department of the Moscow Regional Center for the Fight against AIDS and Infectious Diseases. In 2014, she defended her Ph.D. thesis on the topic “Immunological effects of planned withdrawal of antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected pregnant women” at the State Research Center “Institute of Immunology”, specializing in clinical immunology, allergology. From 2000 to now, she is a co-researcher and principal investigator in more than 20 international studies on antiretroviral therapy and basic antirheumatic drugs. She is an author of more than 40 scientific papers. Research interests - antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection. More than 20 thousand patients with HIV infection are being treated (ART) in the polyclinic department, which is headed by Elena.
