Mitchel S. Berger
Mitchel S. Berger (born January 1, 1953 in Miami Beach , Florida ) is an American neurosurgeon at the University of California, San Francisco .
Berger was a very good football player in his youth , celebrated successes in college football with the Harvard Crimson and almost made it into the professional squad of the Chicago Bears had it not been for a knee injury. Berger earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1974 and an MD from the University of Miami in 1979 with a medical degree. His specialist training and intensive research activities took place at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), interrupted by a research stay at the Hospital for Sick Children at the University of Toronto . From 1986 Berger held a professorship at the University of Washington , and since 1997 he has been at the UCSF. Here he is (as of 2018) Berthold and Belle N. Guggenhime Distinguished Professor in Neurological Surgery and Director of the Brain Tumor Research Center .
Mitchel Berger is primarily concerned with the treatment of brain tumors in children and adults and the treatment of epilepsy in patients with brain tumors. He is an expert in intraoperative mapping of the brain in order to avoid unnecessary functional loss of the patient during the operation.
In 2012, Berger was President of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons , and in 2015 of the American Academy of Neurological Surgery . In 2017 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Thessaly . In 2018 the German Society for Neurosurgery awarded him the Fedor Krause Medal .
Web links
- Mitchel S. Berger MD at the UCSF Department of Neurological Surgery (ucsf.edu)
- Mitchel S. Berger, MD, FAANS, FACS at the Society Of Neurological Surgeons (societyns.org)
- CV (PDF; 1.3 MB; as of July 2018) at wfns-symposia2018.com
- Presidential Address from 2012–2013 AANS President Mitchel S. Berger, MD, FAANS, FACS with biographical outline
Individual evidence
- ↑ Plenary sessions 2018. In: dgnc-kongress.de. German Society for Neurosurgery , June 4, 2018, accessed October 15, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berger, Mitchel S. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berger, Mitchel; Berger, Mitchel Stuart |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American neurosurgeon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Miami Beach , Florida |