Ekaterina Kulchavenya is a principal researcher of Novosibirsk Research TB Institute and professor of Novosibirsk Medical University. She has published more than 55 papers in reputed journals and 8 monographs and she is an author of chapters on urogenital tuberculosis in Russian National Guideline on Urology and in International Consultation on Urological Diseases. Prof. Kulchavenya is an author of many new patented techniques which significantly improved the therapy for extrapulmonary tuberculosis as well as prostate and bladder diseases.