Kukurudz Nataliya Ivanivna, in 1984 entered the Faculty of Dentistry of the Ivano-Frankivsk State Medical Academy, which she graduated with honors in 1989. She completed an internship at the Dental Polyclinic No. 5 in Lviv, specializing in "Therapeutic Dentistry". Since 1993, she has been working at the Dental Polyclinic of the 1st FNMU in the Department of Therapeutic Dentistry. A dentist of the highest category. In 2005, she was accepted as an assistant at the Department of Therapeutic Dentistry of the Ivano-Frankivsk State Medical Academy. In 2008, she defended her PhD thesis on the topic: "Pathogenetic justification for the use of Amizon in the complex treatment of generalized periodontitis". Since 2012, she has been an associate professor at the Department of Therapeutic Dentistry. She is the author of 45 published works, of which 27 articles are published in journals of the Higher Attestation Commission of Ukraine. She received 2 patents of Ukraine for a useful model. She is responsible for the medical work of the department.