Luca Gobbato, DDS, MS, PhD, is a faculty member in the Department of Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity, Division of Periodontics, at Harvard School of Dental Medicine. In January 2012, he was also appointed adjunct professor in the Department of Periodontology at University of Padova and is a lecturer in the Master of Dental Implants program at the University of Padova. Dr Gobbato is a diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and the recipient of the AAP Educator Award in recognition of outstanding teaching and mentoring in periodontics form Harvard University. He has authored numerous publications and serves as reviewer for The International Journal of Periodontics & Restorative Dentistry.
Dr. Caroline Gommel denkt, plant und schreibt als PR-Vollprofi aus Leidenschaft. Sie ist Spezialistin und Allrounderin zugleich. Sie interessiert sich für fast alles und vereint dabei so unterschiedliche Themen wie High-Tech und klassische Moderne, Drehmoment und Violinschlüssel, Finanzmarktdaten und Dentale Volumentomographie. Studiert hat sie Literatur, Musikwissenschaft und Geschichte. Promoviert hat sie über eine Oper von Paul Hindemith und zeitgleich ihren Weg in die Öffentlichkeitsarbeit eingeschlagen. Über unterschiedliche Stationen in den PR-Abteilungen bekannter Verlage wechselte sie in die Unternehmenskommunikation eines Medien- und Nachrichtenkonzerns. Dort konnte sie nicht nur ihr PR-Handwerk verfeinern, sondern auch ihren Horizont auf das Medienbusiness und die Finanzbranche wesentlich erweitern. Außerdem lernte sie während der Arbeit für die Nachrichtenagentur beide Seiten der Kommunikation kennen: ihren eigenen Schreibtisch und den News-Desk ihrer Journalistenkollegen. Von der Welt der Daten und Zahlen wechselte sie in die Medizintechnik und übernahm für einen Dentalkonzern mehrere Jahre lang das PR- und Medienmanagement. Gegründet hat sie die Agentur dokolea aus Spaß am Wort, aus Neugier auf die Menschen, die Unternehmen und ihre spannenden Geschichten.
Über sich sagt sie: „Eigentlich wollte ich Sängerin werden, aber dann habe ich festgestellt, dass ich noch besser schreiben als singen kann. Heute denke ich, ich habe den schönsten Beruf der Welt, besonders dann, wenn mir das Texten so leicht von der Hand geht, dass ich dabei singen kann.“
Dr. Gonzalez-Martin received the DDS degree from University of Seville in 1999 and was appointed as an assistant professor at the same university from 1999 to 2005, while also working in a private practice. In 2005, he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) to obtain an MS degree in Graduate Periodontics and Periodontal-Prosthesis in 2009 from University of Pennsylvania (UPenn). He received the Arnold Weisgold’s Director’s Award. He joined the UPenn faculty as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in 2009 and he currently keeps the position. He became a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontics in 2009. In 2010, he received a scholarship to join to the Fixed Prosthodontic and Occlusion Department at the University of Geneva School of Dental Medicine. In 2015, he obtained an International PhD at the University of Seville. Currently, he serves as Editor-in-Chief for The International Journal of Periodontics & Restorative Dentistry. At present, he teaches in the graduate program of Periodontology at University Complutense of Madrid, Part-time in Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials Sciences Harvard School of Dental Medicine while continuing work at a private practice, Atelier Dental Madrid, exclusive to periodontics, prosthesis, and implants.
Dr. Marco Goppert hospitierte seit seinem Studienbeginn 1996 an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg regelmäßig in renommierten Dentallabors und Zahnarztpraxen.
Nach seinem Abschluss mit Prädikatsexamen und Vollendung der Doktorarbeit arbeitete er in verschiedenen international hoch angesehenen Praxen in Süddeutschland. In diesen Jahren entwickelte er einen hohen Qualitätsanspruch, der nur durch ständigen Wissensaustausch und Fortbildung auf gleichbleibend hohem Niveau gehalten werden kann. So ist er seit 2004 verstärkt in der Aus- und Weiterbildung tätig. In enger Zusammenarbeit mit der dentalen Werkstoffforschung schult er Kollegen und Studenten und bildet Zahnärzte zum Spezialisten für ästhetische Zahnheilkunde aus.
Seine Schwerpunkte sind die ästhetische Zahnheilkunde, Implantologie und Implantatprothetik, Parodontologie, Prophylaxe und die Funktionsdiagnostik und -therapie.
Dr. Klaus Gotfredsen is Professor and Chairman at the Department of Oral Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He graduated in 1984 from the School of Dentistry, University of Aarhus, Denmark. He has also graduated in Medical Sociology and Medical Psychology from Aarhus University, Denmark. He started as PhD student in Copenhagen in 1986 and received a Danish PhD degree in 1990. In 2001 he received a Swedish PhD degree from the Department of Periodontology of the Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University, Sweden. Dr. Gotfredsen has published more than 120 scientific papers in the fields of Implant and Prosthetic Dentistry. He serves as reviewer for a number of clinical and scientific journals and has lectured extensively internationally in the field of Implant Dentistry. He is President of the education committee under the Scandinavian Society of Prosthetic Dentistry. He is the former President of the European Association for Osseointegration (EAO) and a board member of a number of dental societies. He chaired the 1999 European Association for Osseointegration (EAO) meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark. His major subject areas for research are implant dentistry and prosthetic dentistry including 3D- dentistry, biomaterials and oral health related quality of life.
Besides his clinic, Simon Graf, is developing new possibilities to integrate up-to-date technology in the orthodontic field. He started in the beginning of 2014 with a cad/cam-procedure for 3D-metal- printed rapid-palatal-expansion device(hyrax) directly from an intraoral scan. As soon he was able to establish a standardized protocol for this appliance, he continued to work on the herbst-appliance, lingual arch etc. and proceeded to bone-borne appliances. As the materials are evolving, he is now working on acrylic direct printed removable appliances, with the idea to simplify the orthodontic daily business. Also, he is involved in the development of self-designing appliance software. He is lecturing about these topics since 2016 worldwide.
1992: Doctoral thesis at the Institute of Physiological Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, WW-University Münster; 1992-1997: Postdoctoral fellowship and instructor at the Dept. of Pathology, Thomas-Jefferson University Philadelphia, USA; 1997-2003: Assistant professor at the Institute of Physiological Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, WW-University Münster; 2003: Associate professor in the Dept. of Orthopedics, University of Regensburg. Awards: 2000 Lise-Meitner-Fellowship; 2000: Gerhard Küntscher Kreis Award; Poster awards of GSMB-Symposium; 2008: Albert-Hoffa award of the "Norddeutschen Orthopäden Vereinigung"; 2009 Themistocles-Gluck award of the DGOU; 2015: Basic Scientific Award for "best paper" of the DGOU; 2015: Best rated abstract presented at the ICRS, Chicago 2018. Memberships: German Society for Matrix Biology, 2nd president International Society for Matrix Biology, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Orthopädie und Orthopädische Chirurgie, Sektion für Grundlagenforschung der DGOU 1st president.
Marco Gresnigt graduated cum laude in 2005 from the University of Groningen. In 2012, he received his PhD with the topic laminate veneers. He works at the center for special dental care at the Martini Hospital Groningen where he performs restorative and esthetic treatments using a surgical microscope. At the University of Groningen, he is an associate professor in restorative dentistry, conducts practice based research in the field of restorative/adhesive dentistry and teaches aesthetic and reconstructive dentistry at clinic. He has 5 PhD students and publishes in international journals (>60 peer reviewed; h-factor 27) especially in the field of adhesive restorative dentistry. He gives keynote lectures and masterclasses (inter)nationally in the field of esthetic and adhesive dentistry (www.summitdentistry.nl). He has won several awards such as the GC world clinical case award, Smile award, EAED innovation award and several scientific awards. He was the president of the international Bio-Emulation group and has a group and online-platform for innovative restorative research www.summit-research.org.
Prof. Dominik Groß holds a doctorate in dentistry, medicine, and the humanities. He has been Professor of History, Theory, and Ethics of Medicine and has held the chair of the same title at RWTH Aachen University since 2005. Prof. Groß has been involved in education and research in History and Ethics of Dentistry for many years. In addition, he chairs the Ethics Working Group of the DGZMK, is an expert for the 3rd section of the dental examination at the IMPP and is a reviewer for the NKLZ.
Prof Reinhard Gruber holds a PhD in Biotechnology and has worked at the University Clinic of Dentistry at the Medical University of Vienna since 1999. He was Vice Director of the Curriculum for Dentistry and founded the PhD program “Bone and Joint Regeneration.” Prof Gruber was active as a visiting scientist at the Bone Tissue Engineering Center of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and at the Dental School of the University of Michigan. From 2012 to 2014, he headed the Oral Cell Biology Laboratory at the Dental Clinics of the University of Bern, to which he is still affiliated. In October 2014, Prof Gruber was appointed Professor of Oral Biology at the Medical University of Vienna. He is a trustee of the Osteology Foundation, a member of the ITI Research Committee, and a scientific advisor to the Austrian Society for Bone and Mineral Metabolism. From 2008 to 2015, Prof Gruber was Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Stomatology & Occlusion Medicine and the Journal of Stomatology of the Austrian Society of Dental, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine. He is currently Associate Editor of Clinical Oral Implants Research and the International Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Implants, and serves on several editorial boards, including the Journal of Dental Research, Periodontology 2000, and Clinical Oral Investigations. Prof Gruber and his team have published over 250 original articles and reviews in international journals and numerous book chapters in the field of regenerative dentistry.
Ueli Grunder, DMD, is a past president of the Swiss Society of Oral Implantology and the European Academy of Esthetic Dentistry. He has published numerous papers and the book Implants in the Esthetic Zone (Quintessence, 2015), which has been translated into 11 languages. He lectures extensively nationally and internationally on the surgical and prosthetic aspects of implant dentistry. Dr Grunder maintains a group private practice in Zollikon-Zürich, Switzerland.