Daniela Berg MD

Professor Daniela Berg is Chair of the Department of Neurology at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany, and Medical Director of the Clinic of Neurology at the University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel.

Wanting to become a medical doctor since she was 5 years of age she decided to become a neurologist engaged in the care of patients and research in her early residency inspired by Georg Becker, with whom she developed transcranial ultrasound as a diagnostic tool in Parkinson’s disease. Her scientific career was motivated by the deep wish to better understand—to better understand pathophysiology and treatment options for diseases but also to better understand the suffering of persons in all the dimensions of life.

After residency, she spent two years in the Department of Genetics before she went back to Neurology to lead her own working group and serve as a senior consultant. Her major research interests are the early and differential diagnosis of neurodegenerative disorders, particularly the detection and validation of risk and biomarkers for the diagnosis and progression of Parkinson’s disease and the characterization of specific endophenotypes for this neurodegenerative disorder. The desire to find better treatment options for those affected by Parkinson’s disease led her to be PI of many clinical studies. Her scientific contribution to the field can be found in more than 400 peer-reviewed manuscripts to which she contributed as author or co-author.

Daniela Berg is deeply convinced that good and sustainable research is only possible in good cooperation. Gratefully she acknowledges many, with whom she could share thoughts, ideas, and projects. She is enthusiastically engaged in several task forces of the Movement Disorders Society and on the editorial boards of several scientific journals to enable the spreading of current knowledge. Moreover, she serves patients' organizations whenever possible—as it is the patient's clinical and scientific work aims.