Dr Luitgard G Wiest, Dermatologist and international lecturer, Munich, Germany

Dr. Tobias Wilck, a specialist in oral and maxillofacial surgery, can look back on an impressive career. Born in 1967 in Hamburg, he completed his medical studies at the University of Hamburg and gained experience in Kingston (Jamaica) and Vienna before completing his dental studies in Hamburg and Tübingen. His specialist training took him to Hamburg, Tübingen, and finally to Krefeld-Uerdingen, where he worked as a senior physician. Dr. Wilck is certified in plastic-aesthetic surgery and implantology and has been involved in humanitarian missions in Vietnam since 2010, where he treats children with facial injuries, especially those with cleft lip, jaw, and palate. As a member of the German Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (DGMKG), Dr. Wilck brings a wealth of expertise and experience to the treatment of his patients.

Henrike Wilkes, born in 1977, grew up in a small town between the Ruhr area and the Rhineland, Germany. After graduating from high school, she discovered her passion for people and communication during an au pair stay in Rome. This was followed by a 6-year professional career in the hotel industry in various regions of Germany and in Australia at the time of the Olympic Games. She also completed her two degrees in business administration partly abroad – with a semester at the Università Luigi Bocconi in Milan, and an MBA degree at the University of Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa. During her more than 12 years as an executive and manager in a DAX company in the insurance industry, she specialized in the development of managers and was particularly committed to the interests of women in business. She founded an internal women's network and made films to get more women interested in insurance sales. As she was particularly fascinated by the combination of coaching and leadership, Henrike Wilkes completed various coaching courses to enable her to develop her employees effectively. In addition to traditional coaching methods, she makes use of the unusual, using horses for coaching and in leadership seminars to sharpen participants' senses for non-verbal communication, effectiveness, and authenticity. Her everyday experience with her large and very dominant mare, Swari, shows her that you can learn a lot about leadership from horses. If you would like to find out more about the author, please visit her website at www.henrike-wilkes.de. You can also contact her personally there.

Dr. Winston is a physiatrist, and conducts research on spasticity, spinal cord and nerve injury, and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome through the Victoria Peripheral Nerve and Spasticity Clinic he is also the Medical Director of Rehabilitation and Transitions at Island Health.

As one of the world's most recognized prosthodontists and ceramists, Dr. Winter teaches dentists in Spear Workshops to understand the interdependence between laboratory procedures, treatment planning, restorative techniques, materials and laboratory procedures.

In addition to teaching, Dr. Winter produces Spear Study Club modules and creates a variety of clinical content for the Spear learning ecosystem. He has taught more than 900 didactic, clinical and technical courses in more than 40 countries. For the past 36 years, he has maintained a private practice limited to prosthodontics, and currently practices in Newport Beach, California. He is co-founder of Esthetics by Design dental laboratory and is past president of the American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry.

Dr. Winter graduated in 1981 from Marquette University School of Dentistry and completed his prosthodontic specialty residency at the VA Medical Center in Milwaukee in 1983.

Dr Wiskott graduated in 1977. After three years of private practice and internship he earned a doctorate in dental medicine. He then transferred to the United States and in 1982 he received a Master of Science degree in periodontics from the University of Michigan. In 1989 he was awarded a Master of Science in Dentistry degree from About the authorthe University of Washington, specializing in fixed prosthodontics, and in 1998 a PhD degree in biomaterials. Dr Wiskott is the author of about 100 scholarly articles. He teaches and practices dentistry in Geneva, Switzerland.

Daniel Wismeijer graduated from the University of Nijmegen Dental School (1984) and received his PhD in 1996. Until 2006 he worked at the Amphia Teaching Hospital in Breda in the Oral Surgery and Maxillofacial Prosthodontics Department. In 1985 he started a general dental practice, which has been a referral practice for oral implantology since 1990. He was president of the Dutch Prosthodontic Association and the Dutch Association for Gnathology. He has been an ITI Fellow since 1993, a member of the ITI Board of Directors since 2013 and Chair of the ITI Education Committee since 2015. In 2006 he became Professor of Oral Implantology and Prosthetic Dentistry at ACTA Amsterdam where he was Chair and Head of the Department of Oral Implantology and Prosthetic Dentistry until 2020.

Since 1988, Siegbert Witkowskihas been working as Chief Dental Technician in the Department of Prosthodontics, University Hospital of Freiburg, School of Dentistry (Chair: Prof. Dr. B. Spies; Chair until 2016: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. J.R. Strub). He earned his diploma in Dental Technology from an apprenticeship program in Hannover, Germany. He did postgraduate studies and gained work experience at the following institutions: University of London, Royal Dental Hospital (1983-1984); University of Zürich, School of Dentistry (1984-1986); University of Southern California, School of Dentistry (1986-1988). Mr. Witkowski was certified as a Dental Technician (CDT) by the National Board of Certification of Dental Laboratory Technology (USA) in 1986. In 1991, he earned the diploma of the German Master Dental Technician from the master school in Freiburg, Germany. Siegbert Witkowski was co-editor and -founder of the German journal „Implantologie” [Implantology] (1993-2000). For the monthly journal „Quintessenz der Zahntechnik” [Quintessence Dental Technology] also by Quintessence Publishing (Berlin, Germany) he was serving as editorial board member (1997-2000), vice editor-in-chief (2004-2006) before being appointed as editor-in-chief (2007). In 2001 he was editorial chairman of the „Internationale Zahntechnik Magazin” [International Dental Technology Magazine] published by Flohr Publ. (Rottweil, Germany). He co-authored several book chapters, a textbook for dental students “Curriculum Prothetik” (1. ed. 1994 - 5. ed. 2021), a book on implant prosthodontics „Enossale orale Implantologie aus prosthetischer Sicht“ [Endosseous implantology from the prosthodontic point of view], published in 1996 by Quintessence Publishing and numerous journal articles. In recent past, he co-authored a book on dental CAD/CAM technology together with Prof. Dr. W. Att (Tufts University, Bosten, USA) and Prof. Dr. J.R. Strub (Emeritus, Freiburg) titled “Digital Workflow in Reconstructive Dentistry” published by Quintessence Publishing (2019). Siegbert Witkowski is a member of several national and international professional organizations.

• 2007 Staatsexamen Zahnmedizin an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Br.  
• 2007-2023 Assistenzzahnarzt und Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Abteilung für Zahnerhaltungskunde und Parodontologie des Universitätsklinikums Freiburg
• 2010 Promotion mit dem Titel „Evaluation zweier computergestützter Lernprogramme in der Parodontologie“
• 2010 Oral-B blend-a-med Prophylaxepreis 2010 unter Schirmherrschaft der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kinderzahnheilkunde
• 2012 Curriculum "Zahnärztliche Hypnose und Kommunikation" (DGZH e.V.)
• 2012 Mitarbeit beim Nationalen Kompetenzbasierten Lernzielkatalog Zahnmedizin (NKLZ) der DGZMK/VHZMK im Bereich Prävention
• 2013 Early Career Excellence in Dental Education Award der European Association for Dental Education  (ADEE)
• 2014, 2015, 2018 Lehrpreise der zahnmedizinischen Fakultät
• 2016 Tagungsbestpreis der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Grundlagenforschung in der DGZMK
• 2017 Habilitation im Fach Zahnheilkunde an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• 2018 Zusatzbezeichnung „Ernährungsmediziner (DAEM, DGEM)“
• 2019 DGParo Meridol Preis für die beste wissenschaftliche Publikation
• 2019 – 2023 Stellvertretender Studiengangsleiter „Master Parodontologie und Implantattherapie“ an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• 2021 Ernennung zum außerplanmäßigen Professor an der Medizinischen Fakultät der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• Seit 2023 Professur für Parodontologie und Leitung des Bereich Parodontologie an der Medizinischen Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus an der TU Dresden
• 2023 DGParo-Spezialist für Parodontologie®