Neurosurgeon to Speak on Achieving Improved Health Outcomes at Dreamforce Conference

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) neurosurgeon Mitchel S. Berger, MD, FAANS, FACS, has operated on nearly 4,000 brains in 28 years and compares it to walking through a minefield.

“There are so many things that can get tripped off,” says Berger, who is chair of the UCSF Department of Neurological Surgery and director of the UCSF Brain Tumor Center, as well as president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), and also serves on the National Football League’s Head, Neck and Spine Committee. “The brain doesn’t have signposts.” To improve neural navigation, he pioneered two brain-mapping techniques to help avoid damage to motor, language and sensory functions, transforming approaches to tumor surgery.

Berger will be among the UCSF physicians and scientists to lead sessions at Dreamforce 2012 on Thursday, Sept. 20, at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. The theme: “Innovating to Improve Health Outcomes.” For more information, click here to read the full article.