COLTENE Holding AG announced that its Board of Directors nominates Prof. Dr. med. dent. Roland Weiger as a new Board member for election at the next ordinary Annual General Meeting in April 2013.

Prof. Roland Weiger is currently serving as Professor and Director of the Periodontology, Endodontology and Cariology Clinic at the University of Basel and Director of its Department of Dental Medicine. The Board of Directors also announced that Jerry Sullivan, former CEO and current Board Member of COLTENE, will not seek re-election at the end of his current period of office in April 2013. Prof. Roland Weiger started his career in the Polyclinic for Dentistry in the Tooth, Mouth and Jaw Centre at the University Clinic, T bingen, where he became a Consultant Dental Surgeon in 1996 and then Professor of Dentistry in Endodontology in 2000.

In 2002 he was elected to his current position at the University of Basel. Prof. Weiger was Chairman of the Research Committee, European Society of Endodontology (ESE) until 2012 and is currently President of the Expert Commission of the Swiss Organisation for Preventative and Restorative medicine (SVPR), a member of the Boards of the Swiss Society of Periodontology (SSP) and the German Society for Endodontology and Dental Traumatology (DGET), member of the Research Fund of the Society of Swiss Dentists (SSO) and President of the Finance Committee of the Department of Dental Medicine, University Basel.