UWE TORSTEN is currently a Professor and Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Campus Bahrain. He was awarded his Doctorate in Medicine (MD) from the University of Berlin. This was followed by a postdoctoral grant from the German Research Foundation, and he was also a Research Fellow at the National Institute of Health in Berlin in Molecular Biology. In 1986, he was appointed as the Registrar and Senior Registrar in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University Hospital Benjamin Franklin, University of Berlin. In 1993 he was appointed to the Berlin Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital Benjamin Franklin, University of Berlin. In 2007, he obtained his Master's in Business Administration-General Management-Dual Award from Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom. His research interests mainly include different types of gynaecological cancer.