[S-41] Symposium 41「Early diagnosis of neuroimmunological disease associated progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy」

[S-41-2] Early Pathophysiology of Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy

Joseph R. Berger (MS Division, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania)

Joseph R. Berger, MD, is Professor and Associate Chief of the Multiple Sclerosis Division in the Department of Neurology at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and an emeritus professor at the University of Kentucky and the University of Miami. Dr. Berger is a summa cum laude graduate of the Penn State-Jefferson Premedical-Medical Program. He is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Neurology. In 1981 he joined the faculty of the University of Miami School of Medicine where he held the Whigham-Berger Endowed Chair for the study of the neurological complications of HIV/AIDS. Subsequently, Dr. Berger was the Ruth L. Works Professor of Neurology at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, where he served as Chairman of Neurology for 18 years and was the founder and director of the MS Clinic. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, the American College of Physicians, and the American Neurological Association. Dr. Berger’s research interests include the neurological complications of HIV/AIDS, PML, MS, and other inflammatory disorders of the brain. He has published nearly 300 refereed papers, more than 100 chapters, and has edited 4 textbooks.