Professor Søren Jepsen, DDS, MD, MS, PhD

Curriculum Vitae

Søren Jepsen is Chair of the Department of Periodontology, Operative and Preventive Dentistry at the University Medical Center Bonn, Germany. Previously he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Prosthodontics at the University of Hamburg and later Associate Professor in the Dept. of Conservative Dentistry and Periodontology at the University of Kiel.

He received his Dental and his Medical Degree from the University of Hamburg in 1981 and 1986 and a MS in Periodontology from Loma Linda University, California, USA, in 1992. He became a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology in 1999.

Prof. Jepsen is an elected member of Leopoldina (German National Academy of Sciences) since 2005. He was elected and invited as Chair of the Dept. of Periodontology, University of Berne, CH in 2007. From 2008 – 2015 he was Speaker of the Clinical Research Unit 208 „Etiology and Sequelae of Periodontal Diseases“ funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the University of Bonn.

He served as President of the European Federation of Periodontology (EFP) from 2015-2016, was Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee for the AAP/EFP World Workshop on a New Classification of Periodontal and Peri-implant Diseases in 2017 and Scientific Chair for EuroPerio9 in 2018. He is a member of the EFP-Workshop Committee, that has recently developed S3-Level Clinical guidelines for the treatment of periodontitis and peri-implant diseases.

He has lectured and published extensively, and has received numerous national and international awards – more recently the AAP Special Citation Award in 2018, the IADR/PRG Award in Regenerative Periodontal Medicine in 2019, and the R. Earl Robinson Regeneration Award in 2022.