Ibrahim Alkatout studied medicine and medical ethics in Marburg, Dresden and Kiel. He was a resident in the Kiel Institute of Pathology from 2005 to 2007 and in the Kiel University Department for General Surgery from 2007 to 2009. Since 2009 he has been working in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel. In 2013 he was appointed senior consultant in obstetrics and gynecology with the subspecialty endoscopic surgery. In 2014 he became Head of the Kiel School of Gynaecological Endoscopy and was appointed university lecturer.