Prof. Thomas Berger

Prof. Thomas Berger, MD, MSc, is Head of the Neuroimmunology and Multiple Sclerosis Clinic (serving approx. 2500 MS patients) and of the Neuroimmunology Research Unit at the Clinical Dept. of Neurology, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria, since 1996. He was also Head of the Neurological Outpatient Clinic from 2000 to 2009.
 
He graduated in 1991 at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, and post graduated in 2002 in “Hospital Management and Health Economics“. He started his career at the Dept. of Exp. Neuropathology and Neuroimmunology (Prof. Hans Lassmann), Neurological Institute, University of Vienna, and also held positions in the Dept. of Neurology (Prof. Eduard Auff), Univ. of Vienna; Dept. of Neurology (Prof. Werner Poewe), Dept. of Psychiatry (Prof. H. Hinterhuber) and in the Dept. of Immunobiology & Bone Marrow Transplantation (Prof. D. Niederwieser) of the University of Innsbruck. 

His main research areas are immunopathogenetic heterogeneity; immunology, pathogenetic, prognostic and clinical relevance of autoantibodies and innate immunity in multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica.
 
He has published more than 130 peer-reviewed papers/research letters/invited reviews and several books/ book chapters. Prof. Berger was several times awarded, including by ECTRIMS and by the Charcot Foundation and was/is principal investigator in more than 40 academic and multicenter clinical treatment trials. Prof. Berger is Board Member of the Austrian MS Society, Chairman of the Tyrolean MS Society, Austrian Representative for the EFNS Expert Panel “Demyelinating diseases“, Chair of the EFNS Subcommittees on eLearning and CME and member of several MS specific advisory boards.

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