Georg Meyer (dentist)

Georg Meyer (born November 30, 1948 in Bad Bevensen ) is a German dentist and former president of the DGZMK .

Georg Meyer grew up on Gut Nienbüttel, a farm near Natendorf in the Lüneburg Heath. He has two younger sisters (Maria and Katrin Meyer). His parents, Barbara and Georg, worked on the farm and also had some employees. After graduating from school, Meyer studied at the University of Göttingen and took his state examination in 1976. Initially, he turned to agricultural science, but during his studies he switched to dentistry.

In 1981 the doctorate followed and then in 1987 the habilitation. A year later he was a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. In 1992 he was offered three chairs (Jena, Freiburg and Greifswald). He decided in favor of the university and Hanseatic city of Greifswald, where the call to the Ernst Moritz Arndt University took place in 1993 . Since then he has been the director of the Polyclinic for Dental Conservation , Periodontology and Endodontology .

From 1996 to 2002 Georg Meyer was the President of the Council of Greifswald University. Since 2001 he has been the managing director of the Center for Dental, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine and from October 2004 to 2008 President of the DGZMK. At the University of Moscow, Meyer has been Dr. hc of State Medicine and Dentistry.

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