Alexandr Kulanin – MD, practicing clinician, President of the Association of hirudologist of the North Caucasus, Pyatigorsk, Russia.
A graduate of the Tomsk Medical Institute (1981), chief doctor of Pyatigorsk sanatorium «Mashuk» (1997-2004), since 2004 – Deputy General Director of LLC “AIK limited” (Pyatigorsk, Russia). Engaged hirudotherapy since 1987, the Organizer of the 6th Conference of the Association hirudologists of Russia and CIS countries (October 1999, Pyatigorsk). Since 1996, he conducts training courses on the basics of hirudotherapy in Pyatigorsk, during this time, the training went on for about 300 cadets.
