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Surgeon named AANS president
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Mitchel S. Berger Mitchel S. Berger, MD, FAANS, FACS,
Berger, an association member since 1992, served as chair of the AANS Annual Meeting in 2007. He has served on the association’s executive, finance, and nominating and strategic planning committees.
His agenda will include making the Neurosurgical Research and Education Foundation — the association’s philanthropic and research arm — “grow to be a substantial presence in funding neurosurgical research and education throughout neurosurgery,” he said in a press release.
Berger is chairman of the University of California, San Francisco’s department of neurological surgery and director of the university’s Brain Tumor Research Center. His clinical interests include epilepsy related to brain tumors, as well as the treatment of brain and spinal cord tumors in adults and children.
Berger is director of the American Board of Neurological Surgery. He has edited or co-edited seven textbooks, and he serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of Neuro-Oncology, Techniques in Neurosurgery and several other peer-reviewed journals.