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Bilal Al-Nawas

Professor Dr. med. Dr. med. dent.

Professor Dr. med. Dr. med. dent. Bilal Al-Nawas is a full time Professor and Medical Director at the Department of Oral, Maxillofacial and Plastic Surgery at the J. Gutenberg University of Mainz. He has been an Adjunctive Associate Professor at Kyung Hee University School of Dentistry, Seoul, Korea since 2009. A graduate in dentistry and medicine, Bilal Al-Nawas has been affiliated with the University of Mainz for more than 15 years. His major clinical and scientific focus in dental implantology is on clinical studies and basic research. His clinical field of work is compromised patients with risk factors or local bone deficiency, as well as tumor and cleft reconstructions. He has published over 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals: He is a Fellow of the ITI Section Germany, an Education Delegate and a member of the Research Committee. In 2006 & 2010 he was awarded: “Best Teacher at the Medical Faculty”. Since 2012 he is speaker of the University Medical Center Focus: BiomaTiCS – Biomaterials, Tissues and Cells. He is President of the International Federation of Dental Anesthesiology Societies (IFDAS) and Secretary General of the German Society of Implantalogy (DGI).

Urs Belser

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Prof. Urs Belser graduated from the Dental Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland, where he also did postgraduate specialty training in reconstructive dental medicine (board-certified specialist). At the University of Zurich (Chairman: Prof. Dr. Peter Schaerer, M.S.), he was Assistant Professor and then Senior Lecturer at the Department of Fixed Prosthodontics and Dental Materials from 1976 to 1980. He was a visiting assistant professor (1980-1982) in the Departments of Oral Biology (Chairman: Prof. Dr. A.G. Hannam) and Clinical Dental Sciences (Chairman: Prof. Dr. W. A. Richter), Faculty of Dentistry, University of British Columbia (Canada). Between 1983 and 2012, he was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Fixed Prosthodontics and Occlusion at the University of Geneva School of Dental Medicine and President of the Swiss Association of Prosthetic Dentistry from 1984 to 1988. In 2002: he received the Scientific Research Award of the Greater New York Academy of Prosthodontics. He was President of the European Association of Prosthodontics (EPA) from 2002 to 2003. In 2006 he was a visiting professor at Harvard University, School of Dental Medicine (Boston, USA), Department of Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials Sciences (Prof. Dr. H. P. Weber). From 2005 to 2009, he was President of the School of Dental Medicine, University of Geneva. Since November 2012 he has been a guest professor at the Department of Oral Surgery and Stomatology (Prof. Dr. D. Buser), and Department of Fixed Prosthodontics (Prof. Dr. U. Braegger), School of Dental Medicine, University of Bern. In April 2013, he was made an Honorary Fellow of the ITI and Editor-in-Chief of the ITI’s Forum Implantologicum. In November 2014, he received Honorary Membership and Lecturer of the Year Award from the American College of Prosthodontics (ACP). His research activities in the fields of implant dentistry focus on esthetics and the latest developments in the field of CAD/CAM technology and high performance dental ceramics, as well as on adhesive reconstructive dental medicine.

Charlotte Stilwell

Charlotte Stilwell is a specialist in prosthodontics. She qualified from the Royal Dental College in Copenhagen in 1983 and moved to London to pursue her interest in removable prosthodontics. After five years of post-graduate training in the Prosthetic Department, Royal London Hospital Dental School she practiced for nine years in general practice in West Wickham, Kent. In 1997 she took up her current practice position as a referral specialist at a multi-disciplinary Harley Street Dental Clinic in London. Charlotte has an interest in both conventional and implant prosthodontics and management of occlusion and over the past 20 years she has lectured and published articles in all of these areas. Charlotte is a lecturer at the Division of Gerodontology and Removable Prosthodontics, University of Geneva and examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh. She is also a Fellow of the International Team for Implantology, Member of the ITI Education Committee and a Senior Editor for the ITI Online Academy.