Curriculum Vitae

1976
Dental degree and dental doctoral thesis ("Dr. med.dent."/DDS) on “Investigation into the changes of tooth contacts in maximum intercuspidation in patients wearing partial and full dentures”, Mainz

1984
Medical degree

1985
Medical thesis ("Dr. med."/DMD) on “Anatomical studies in the fascicular structure of individual brain nerves as a basis of a differentiated microsurgical nerve suture”, Hannover

1990
Habilitation (PhD) in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Hannover Medical School award of the venia legendi for the speciality of oral and maxillofacial surgery at Hannover Medical School. Title of the thesis: “Experimental and clinical investigations as to osteoplasty in combination with endosseous implants and bone graft materials in the oral and maxillofacial region”

1 October 1995
Appointed Head of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg

April 2000
Elected President of the German Society of Implantology in the Oral Region

September 2000
Elected General Secretary of the EAO

February 2001
Editor-in-Chief, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Mund-Kiefer-Gesichtschirurgie

2017
Editor-in-Chief, Journal Oral Maxillofacial Surgery Professor emeritus

Professional activities focused on

• traumatology of the skull
• inflammations
• anomalies, impaired growth,cleft lip and palate,craniofacial surgery,  orthopedic surgery
• tumours
• plastic surgery
• preprosthetic surgery
• implantology
• oral surgery

Memberships

German Society for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine

German Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

German Society for Implantology in the Tooth, Mouth and Jaw Sector (registered association)

American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons

British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons

International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons

Academy of Osseointegration

European Association for Osseointegration

ITI - International Team for Oral Implantology

German Academy for Cosmetic Surgery (registered association)

Interdisciplinary working group for cleft lips, jaws and palates

American Cleft Palate - Craniofacial Association

German Society for Skull Base Surgery

European Skull Base Society

Member of the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons

Pierre Fauchard Academy

Honorary Member Hellenic Association of Osseointegrated Dental and Maxillofacial Implants-Biomaterials (H.A.O.D.M.I.B.)

EAO Honorary Membership (9/2019)

Honorary Professorship Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry