20. Jun 2025 — 21. Jun 2025
Katrin Bekes is Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at the University Clinic of Dentistry, Medical University of Vienna, Austria. She is currently President of the German Society of Pediatric Dentistry, Vice President of the Austrian Society of Pediatric Dentistry, and is also involved in the European and International Society of Pediatric Dentistry. Prof. Bekes founded the only competence center for patients with MIH in Austria. She has published and lectured widely on molar incisor hypomineralization and related fields.
1987-92: Studied dentistry at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. 1993: Doctorate. 1999: Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. 2000: Habilitation, appointment as Senior Physician. 2001: Miller Award from the German Society of Dental, Oral, and Craniomandibular Sciences (DGZMK). 2008: Walkhoff Prize from the German Society of Dental Sciences (DGZ), Research Prize from the Ceramics Working Group. 2008: Visiting Associate Professor at Nova Southern University, Fort Lauderdale, USA. 2009: Director of the Department of Conservative Dentistry at the Medical Center for Dental, Oral, and Craniomandibular Sciences, Philipps University Marburg. 2009-12: Deputy Chair of the APW. Since 2011: Editor-in-Chief of "Quintessenz Zahnmedizin". 2012-14: President of the DGZ. 2012-15: Managing Director of the Marburg Dental Clinic. 2015: Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Adhesive Dentistry. 2015: Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Faculty of Medicine. 2016-18: Dean of Studies for Medicine, Dentistry, and Human Biology. 2019: President of the German Society of Dental, Oral, and Craniomandibular Sciences (DGZMK). Author of 250 articles, 35 book contributions, and two books. National and international speaker.
Markus Tröltzsch is a specialist in oral and maxillofacial surgery. He worked as a senior physician at the Clinic and Polyclinic for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University Medical Center in Göttingen, Germany, and now runs the Center for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in Ansbach together with his brother. He is active in various specialist societies, is chairman of the Academy of Practice and Science (APW) of the DGZMK, and lectures and publishes frequently, particularly in the field of augmentation surgery and at the interface between medicine and dentistry.