Thomas Berg

Vice Secretary, European Associations for the Study of the Liver (EASL), Professor of Medicine at the University of Leipzig and Head of the Division of Hepatology

Professor Dr. Thomas Berg completed his medical training at the Universities of Tübingen, Freiburg and Berlin, Germany. He specialized in internal medicine in 2001 and in Gastroenterology and Hepatology in 2007 at the University Medicine Berlin, and became a lecturer in this subject in 2002.

In 2002, Professor Berg took up the position of Associate Director and Professor of Medicine at the Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology of Charité, Campus Virchow-Clinic, University Medicine in Berlin, where he was Head of the Liver Out-Patient Clinic and the Laboratory for Molecular Hepatitis and Viral Diagnostics. Since December 2009, he has been the Head of the Section of Hepatology at the University Hospital in Leipzig, and since April 2020 Head of the Division of Hepatology, Department of Medicine II, Leipzig University Medical Center, Germany. He is Chair of the University Liver Tumor Center, and Vice-Chair of the University Liver Transplant Center Leipzig.

His clinical and translational research is focused on chronic viral hepatitis, liver transplantation, hepatocellularcarcinoma, genetics in liver disease, and liver failure, and he participated in numerous national and internationalclinical trials.

He is Vice Secretary of the European Associations for the Study of the Liver (EASL), Board member of the EASL International Liver Foundation (EILF) and served the Journal of Hepatology as Co-Editor between 2014 and 2019. He is also member of the American (AASLD), European (EASL), and German (GASL) Associations for the Study of the Liver, The European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT), The European Liver and Intestine Transplant Association (ELITA), German Transplantation Society (DTG), Working Group Internal Oncology (AiO), Working Group Gastroenterological Oncology (AGO), German Cancer Society (DKG), German Society of Gastroenterology (DGVS), and the representative of the DGVS in the foundation council of the German liver foundation. He has published more than 350 articles in peer-reviewed journals and more than 100 reviews and textbook contributions. His h-index is 74 (Scopus).

Updated: May 2021