Education

1956
School enrolment: Catholic elementary school in Düppelweiler

1960
Change to the old-language-humanistic St. Josef High school Biesdorf

1968
High school graduation

1968-1975
Study of dentistry and medicine in Saarbrücken and Mainz

30.10.1973
Dental State Examination

27.06.1975
State Medical Examination

30.11.1976
License to practice medicine

1976-1978
Dental residency (practice and military)

Continuing education: maxillofacial surgery plastic operation

01.12.1978
Polyclinic for Dental Surgery University of Mainz (Director Prof. Dr. Dr. P. Tetsch)

01.05.1980
Clinic for Mouth, Jaw and Facial Surgery University of Mainz

25.11.1982
Recognition as a medical specialist: "Doctor for mouth, jaw and facial surgery"

03.12.1987
Additional designation: "Plastic surgery"

03.12.1988
Habilitation: venia legendi for "oral and maxillofacial surgery

Function within the clinic

1988-1990
Senior consultant at the Clinic for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

19.03.1990
Appointment as university professor (C3 a.L.)

1990
Appointment as provisional head of the clinic for oral and maxillofacial surgery and the polyclinic for dental surgery (C4 temporary)

1992-2017
Call to the chair of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz and appointment as director of the clinic for maxillofacial surgery

1996-1999
Managing director of the clinic for dentistry, oral and maxillofacial surgery

1996-1998
Dean of Studies Dentistry Department of Medicine

2002-2016
Chairman of the examination commission for dental examinations

2006-2017
Member of the examination board for medical examinations

1993-2017
Member Faculty of Medicine

1992-2017
Member of the clinic and nursing committee

2006-2012
Speaker of the clinic directors

2008-2012
Chairman of the clinic and nursing committee

Tasks within the scientific societies

Since 1987
Foundation and management of the interdisciplinary working group for cleft lip and palate (organisation of 25 symposia in Mainz) Publisher of the parent information of the working group

1991-1994
Second chairman of the working group implantology in dentistry, oral and maxillofacial surgery (foundation of the DGI)

1993-1997
Chairman of the working group oral surgery of the German Society for Dental, Oral and Orthodontic Medicine

Since 1995
Member of the Board and Advisory Board of the German Society for Dental, Oral and Orthodontic Medicine

1997-2001
President of the German Society for Dental, Oral and Orthodontic Medicine

Since 2001
Appointment to the scientific consilium of the German Dental Association

Since 2001
Member of the Board of Trustees of DIMDI (German Institute for Medical Documentation and Information)

2002
Appointment to the expert committee Ma-Tech Medical Technology

2002-2016
Member of the Board of Directors of the German Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and scientific advisory board

2002-2010
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the ITI Research Committee

Since 2002
Science Council: Member of the working group on dentistry and the working group on university outpatient clinic of the Science Council

Since 2002
Enquet Commission New Licensing Regulations for Dentistry

Since 2003
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Hufeland Prize Foundation

Since 2004
Member of the scientific board of the Osteology-Foundation

Since 2005
Member of the Senate Commission for Central Honours of Johannes Gutenberg University

2006-2016
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Medical Faculty of the University of Rostock

2006-2017
Board member of the Camlog Acadamy

Since 2006
Member of the Presidium of the Working Group of the Scientific Medical Societies (AWMF) (Vice-President since 2008)

2008-2014
Member of the professional advisory board of the Association of University Teachers in Dental, Oral and Orthodontic Medicine (VHZMK) Member of the Ethics Committee of the State Medical Association of Rhineland-Palatinate

2008-2012
College of the German Research Foundation (regenerative medicine and tumor biology)

2010-2014
Member of the Health Research Council of the Federal Ministry for Research and Technology

Since 2011
Member of the steering committee of the National Catalogue of Learning Objectives of the Federal Ministry of Research and Technology

Since 2015
Board Member and Vice Chairman of the PROSEC Network

Since 2017
Member of the Commission of the Institute for Medical and pharmaceutical examination questions

Editorial Board or editor of scientific journals

• Publisher and Board
  Journal for dental implantology
• Publisher and Board
  International Poster Journal of Dentistry and Oral Medicine
• Board
  Maxillofacial surgery
• Board
  Implantology
• Board
  Official Journal of the Polish Society
• Board
  German medical science
• Board
  Knowledge Compact
• Board
  Cranio Maxillofacial Surgery and Ortho-Dontics, Warschau
• Board
  International Journal of Implant Dentistry Tokyo

Most important honors

• Honorary member of the German Society for Dental, Oral and Orthodontic Medicine
• Honorary member of the German Society for Implantology
• Honorary member of the Polish Society of Stomatology
• Honorary member of the Greek Implantology Society
• Honorary member of the German Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
• Honorary member of the German Interdisciplinary Working Group Cleft Lip-Jaw-Palate / Craniofacial Anomalies
• Apollonia Prevention Prize of the Westphalia-Lippe Dental Association
• Silver Needle of Honour of the the Rhineland-Palatinate Dental Association
• Golden Needle of Honour of the German Dentists' Association
• Honorary Needle of the German Society for Periodontology
• Honorary Medal of the University of Warsaw
• Honary Board Member der Osteology Foundation
• Membership in the Leopoldina
• Ernst von Bergmann badge of the German Medical Association