Professor Rolf Ewers is the Chairman of the CMF Implant Institute Vienna. Raised in Germany, he studied medicine and dentistry in Freiburg. He began his surgery residency at Downstate University in Brooklyn, USA, before completing his cranio-maxillofacial and oral surgery training and PhD in Freiburg. He served as Deputy Chairman of the University Hospital for Oral-Maxillofacial Surgery in Kiel, Germany, for 9 years. He then spent 23 years as Chairman of the University Hospital of Cranio-Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery in Vienna, Austria, until October 2012.