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After graduating from the Moscow Institute of Energy with a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Dr. Malko started her professional career in Institute of Nuclear Research of Science Academy in the former Soviet Union. Later she married and moved to the Dominican Republic, where she became a Physics professor at Catholic University of Madre and Maestra. Her second professional career was in Oriental Medicine and Acupuncture after earning a PhD in Oriental Medicine from American Liberty University and completing postgraduate studies in Korea, China, Japan and Russia. Dr. Malko was a teacher and a supervisor at the Eastern School of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine in Montclair, NJ for 14 years, and a visiting lecturer at the Institute for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Dr. Malko is a founder of Traditional and High-Tech Acupuncture LLC, a successful health care business in New Jersey.
From a very young age Dr. Malko was fascinated with astronomy and space travel, to which she dedicated a large part of her free time. In the United State she joined the Planetary, Mars, and the National Space Societies, where she is an active member and sponsor.
Dr. Malko is a world traveler and scuba diver. She has visited all continents of planet Earth and declared that her next step is Mars. She already has Zero G experience with Zero G flight from Florida, where she successfully applied the natural healing power of acupressure to help with nausea in Zero G conditions.
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