Dr. Olav Istre completed his residency at Frederiksberg and received his MSc from Aarhus University in 1977 and Dr. Med. from Oslo University in 1996. He worked from March 2009 to December 2010 as Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, Boston. Since December 2010, he has been the Chief Physician with exclusive responsibility for the gynecological field at the private hospital Aleris-Hamlet and Adjunct Professor of Gynecological Surgery at the Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Southern Denmark.