MUDr. Ivo Marek, Ph.D.

Dr. Marek graduated with a degree in Dentistry from the Faculty of Medicine at Palacky University in Olomouc in 1990. He completed a three-year training program for Orthodontics in 1999 and finished his postgraduate study of Orthodontics at the Orthodontic Department of Dental School at Palacky University in Olomouc in 2007, where he earned his PhD. Dr. Marek runs his Private Dental Clinic in Breclav, where he focuses on interdisciplinary dental care. Above all, he focuses on the collaboration of orthodontists with periodontists and implantologists. Moreover, the Dental Clinic has gained credibility for several important clinical successes. For example, Marek's clinic has the privilege of being the first clinic in the Czech Republic which has performed the autotransplantation of a premolar, etc. Dr. Marek works as an Associate Professor at the Orthodontic Department of Dental School, Palacky University, in Olomouc, in both graduate and postgraduate study programs. In addition, he is a part-time teacher at the Orthodontic Department at Charles University's Faculty of Medicine, in Prague. He has published 45 articles and has given over 190 lectures in the Czech Republic and abroad. Dr. Marek is a Vice President of the Czech Orthodontic Society, and not only a member of the European Orthodontic Society, but also the American Orthodontic Society and the World Orthodontic Society. In 2007, he was appointed Honorary Member of the Implantology Club of Czech Republic for the partnership between the fields of orthodontics and implantology. Furthermore, he is a member of the editorial board of the journal Ortodoncie (Orthodontics) and reviewer of the journal Ortodoncie,Journal of Aligner Orthodontics, The Angle Orthodontist and European Journal of Orthodontics. He is member of the accreditation committee of the Ministry of Healthcare and a representative of the Czech Orthodontic Society in EFOSA, as well as an AAO Ambassador and member of Council of European Orthodontic Society.