We are happy to announce that a new specialist has joined the EMC's team: Professor Ekaterina Borovkova, MD-PhD, obstetrician-gynecologist of the highest category, and physician of ultrasound diagnostics.

Dr. Borovkova graduated with honors from I. M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy in 2000 and then finished a clinical residency and fellowship in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the I.M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy School of Post-Graduate Physicians Education. In 2004 she defended her thesis on "The interaction between infectious agents in pregnancy as a risk factor for intrauterine infection of the fetus." Since 2005 she has taught in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University Institute of Post-Graduate Physicians Education, and oversees the obstetrics and gynecology department at the A.K. Eramishantsev City Clinical Hospital and State Public Health Facility.

In 2009 she was awarded the medical qualification of "highest category," and completed the primary specialization of ultrasound diagnostics in 2009.

In 2013 she defended her doctoral thesis on "The management of pregnant women with obesity and metabolic syndrome." In 2013 the Higher Attestation Commission awarded her the title of associate professor.

Dr. Borovkova has 15 years of experience. She is the author of 130 publications (including in foreign journals), has 2 patents for inventions, is the author of a proprietary manuscript, is the 2-time winner of the Russian competition "Young Scientists," and is the co-author of the National Guidelines for Obstetrics and Gynecology.

She actively participates in Russian and International conferences related to obstetrics and gynecology, gynecological endocrinology, menopause, and metabolic syndrome, and is an active member of the Moscow Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the Russian Society for Menopause and Menopausal Syndrome, and the international organizations ISUOG and FMF. She is certified in GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) and GCP (Good Clinical Practice). In 2012-2014 she participated in the Multicenter International Study of the safety and efficacy of the use of micronized progesterone in patents at risk for preterm delivery.

Dr. Borovkova speaks Russian and English.

Her practical interests include entire spectrum of obstetric and gynecological pathology: infertility, managing normal and complicated pregnancies and deliveries, diseases of the cervix, chronic inflammatory diseases of the pelvic organs, uterine fibroids, endometriosis, chronic pelvic pain, gynecological endocrinology, child and adolescent gynecology, and ultrasound diagnostics in obstetrics and gynecology.

Dr. Borovkova uses contemporary methods of surgical gynecology in her practice (hysteroscopy, hystero-resectoscopy, laparoscopy, laparotomy), and is also skilled in methods of physiological and operational childbirth.