
Dr. Helmut LIERTZER MD – AUSTRIA
Short CV
Βorn 1951 in Vienna
Medical Promotion: 1977
Board certified as an orthopedic specialist: 1983
1994 – 2007 Head of the Department for Orthopedic Pain Therapy (Herz Jesu Hospital, Vienna)
Acupuncture
Since 1978 member of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Acupuncture/ Johannes Bischko Institute.
(Head: Prof. Dr. J. Bischko followed by Prof. Dr. H. Nissel and Dr. Karin Stockert)
Since 1983 board member of the Austrian Society for Acupuncture
1981 Alfred Pischinger Scientific Award
1983 Organization: Acupuncture World-Congress in Vienna (Hofburg)
1989 Organization: International ICMART Symposium in Vienna (Old AKH)
1992 – 1994 President of ICMART
2000 Organization: ICMART World-Congress in Vienna (Palais Auersperg)
2013 Organization: International ICMART Congress in Vienna
For many periods between 1986 and 2012 Vice-President of ICMART
After more than 30 years retired from the ICMART board 2015
Neural Therapy
Since 1994 board member of the Austrian Society of Neural Therapy
Since 2011 President of the Austrian Society of Neural Therapy
Since 2015 deputy director of IFMANT (International Federation of Medical Associations of Neural Therapy)

Prof. Nikolay NICKOLAEV MD, PhD – Latvia
Short CV
Born in Latvia on April 09-th, 1947
Graduated from Riga Medical Institute with a first class honours degree in 1972.
Clinical specialty – Neurology.
Has completed his MD thesis in 1978, and PhD – in 1987, both on Medical Acupuncture & Related Techniques.
Since 1990 – Elected Professor of the Latvian University.
Actual specialty – Medical Acupuncture and TCM (works since 1974).
Qualified in Neurology and Clinical Reflexology at Moscow Central Institute for Postgraduate Medical Education (Russian Academy of Sciences) – 1974.
International University of Traditional Chinese medicine (Tianjin, P.R. China) – (1988-1989) – advanced course on TCM.
Founder and constant President of Latvian Association for Medical Acupuncture & Related Techniques – since 1993.
Director of the Clinical Centre for Traditional Chinese Medicine of Latvia, Estonia & Lithuania – since 1995.
Constant Director of the International Association of Integrative Medicine (IAIM) (USA) – since 1998.
Senior Adviser of the World Federation Societies of Traditional Chinese Medicine (WFCMS) – since 2004.
Honourable lecturer of Russian Academy of Sciences.
Honourable Member of Polish Association for Medical Acupuncture.
Man of Year (1998, 2004, 2009) on Medical Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (American Biographic Institute).
Member of the Club “100 Outstanding Professionals of the World ” – 2006 (Cambridge University).
Academician for life – elected by American Bibliographical Institute in 2010.
Nominated the Award of the American Biographical Institute “Gold Medal for Latvia” (on Traditional Chinese Medicine) – 2006.
Author of more than 400 scientific articles, 8 monographs, and 15 Patents on Medical Acupuncture.
scientific articles, 8 monographs, and 15 Patents on Medical
Acupuncture.

Dr. Jochen GLEDITSCH MD – Germany
Short CV
Βorn 1928
Gleditsch received his license to practice as a dentist in 1950, his license to practice medicine followed in 1954. He was promoted to Dr. med. PhD.
From 1955 to 1957 he worked as a district dentist and head of a polyclinic in Sweden. From 1958 to 1962 he practiced as a dentist in Berlin. From 1962 to 1966 he trained as an ENT doctor at the Free University of Berlin. In 1967 he settled as an ENT doctor with affiliated doctor activity in Wiesbaden and from 1970 to 1992 in Munich. In 1990 he received a teaching position for acupuncture at the University of Munich. In 2004 he was awarded the Ewald Harndt Medal by the Berlin Dental Association.
Gleditsch is honorary president of the German Medical Acupuncture Association (DAEGfA), honorary professor at Fujian University in China and author of numerous books on oral acupuncture and micro-acupuncture systems (MAPS). 1990-1992 he served as ICMART president and hosted 1991 the annual ICMART congress in Munich.
Medical Focus
Jochen Gleditsch’s medical focus is on pain therapy using unconventional methods such as neural therapy, traditional acupuncture and somatotopic reflex therapy. He is a co-founder of oral acupuncture, lymph belt and the very point technique and researched acupuncture therapy for craniomandibular dysfunction (CMD).