**Meet the editor**

Dr Atef Darwish is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Egypt since July 2005. Moreover, he is a consultant of Obstetrics and Gynecology in three hospitals and he is the moderator and lecturer of many endoscopic societies. He spent two years training in the endoscopic unit of Ulm university (Germany). He joined many centers in

the US and Europe concentrating on the reproductive medicine He authored an internationally registered undergraduate book (Practical Obstetrics and Gynecology) and edited three InTech multi-author books. He presented more than 80 presentations in national and international meetings, delivered a lot of lectures in Egypt, some Arabian countries and the USA (Buffalo and Pennsylvania) and published more than 56 papers in international medical journals, and 7 papers in national journals. He received some congress prizes and awards due to his work in the field of reproductive medicine since 1995. He is a reviewer of many international journals and an associate editor of four of them. His special interest has been in the area of gynecologic laparoscopy, hysteroscopy, colposcopy, reproductive medicine, and assisted reproduction. He published some innovative procedures in the field of hysteroscopic, laparoscopic and minimal access surgeries in addition to drug therapy of hyperprolactinemia.

In 2009, he got a PhD degree in the reproductive medicine at the University of Utrichet, The Netherlands.
