Michael Hartmann, MD FIPP MBA, is working 100% in pain medicine since 20 years. Several years he was head of Interventional Pain Therapy at Pain Clinic Basilea and head of Pain Medicine at Bethesda, Basilea. He then established Pain Clinic Zurich. In this interdisziplinary out-patient setting individual treatments are tailored utilizing interventional, rehabilitational and psychological approaches. His special interests are self-efficacy and minimally invasive pain treatments. He recently co-founded helpyourcells to offer regenerative interventional (pain) treatment. After education at Hamburg University, he was engaged in cardiac and neuro anesthesia and intensive care medicine at Hannover Medical University and Freiburg University. He published on Alpha-2-agonists, ventilator-associated pneumonia and analgosedation during interventional pain procedures. He held the first patent on a silver-coated endotracheal tube. He is lecturer for the Swiss Society for the Studies of Pain (SGSS) and examiner for the World Institute of Pain (WIP).