In 2011, she defended her doctoral thesis on: "Echocardiography in pediatric cardiac surgery: diagnosis of complex and rare congenital heart defects in newborns and infants in the aspect of surgical treatment."
Since 1999, she has worked as an ultrasound diagnostics doctor at the Scientific Center for Cardiovascular Surgery. Bakuleva works in the Rengendiagnostic department. From 2006 to the present, she has been the head of the Ultrasound Diagnostics Department at the National Research and Practical Center for Cardiovascular Surgery. Bakuleva" Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. The total work experience in ultrasound diagnostics is 18 years.