Dr.Salkov Mykola Mykolaiovych is graduated from Dnipropetrovsk medical institute in 1994. After his internship training graduation, in 1997, he started work at the post of doctor-neurosurgeon of the territorial center of emergency medicine. From 1999 up to 2007, he was working at the post cerebral neurosurgery doctor-neurosurgeon. Since 2007, he has been working as a neurosurgeon in the department of surgery vertebral column and spinal cord. In 2005, he passed his doctoral dissertation “Diagnostics and surgical treatment of nontraumatic cerebrospinal rhinorrhea”.In January 2013, there is a planned medical science doctoral dissertation: surgical treatment of spinal injury in acute and early periods.From 2007 up to 2019, he was teaching of nervous diseases and neurosurgery academic department of Dnipropetrovsk medical academy and Traditional and Non-traditional Institute, as well as was giving the neurosurgery practical classes and lectures for the students.Under the leadership of the professor, doctor of medical science, Mosiichuk N.M., there has been developed an original, minimally invasive method of endonasal plastic reconstruction of cerebrospinal-fluid fistula (2004), which is introduced at present not only in many regions of Ukraine (Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia) but also abroad (Russia, Uzbekistan). He has 58 published works out of which 3 are the declaration patents of Ukraine, reports at the 13th world congress of neurosurgeons in Morocco (2005), at the neurosurgery seminar in Austria (2006), 13th congress of the European association of neurosurgeons in Scotland (2007), 14th world congress of neurosurgeons in the USA (Boston, 2009), a global summit on stroke 2015 (Birmingham, England), EANS 2015 (Spain, Madrid), Eurospine 2016 (Berlin, Germany). In December 2010, he visited the neurosurgical department medical university of Vienna, Austria, where he made a report on the organization of neurosurgical aid in Ukraine. In the period from February 21 to 23, 2013, he passed the course of practical anatomy and surgical education (the 6 Annual Cervical Spine Decompression and Stabilization Techniques Course) in the medical school of St. Louis University (USA). M. Salkov is the editor of 15 scientific journals abroad. He has a grant from CSRS 2017 (European Section: Awards and Grants).He’s a corresponding member of Eurospine and a member of the North American Spine Society. Research Interests:1. Сerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea.2. The spectral scan of the brain and spinal cord tumors.3. Spinal injury, spinal cord injury, spinal surgery.