Kåre Berg

Kåre Ingmar Berg (1 March 1932 – 24 January 2009) was a Norwegian MD, professor in medical genetics, physician-in-chief and well-cited researcher.

Education and positions

Kåre Berg was born in Hammerfest. He graduated as MD in 1957 and dr.med. in 1964 at the University of Oslo. From 1964 to 1967 he was a fellow researcher at Rockefeller University, New York.

In 1967 he became the first professor in medical genetics in Norway at the University of Oslo. In 1976 he became head of department of medical genetics at Ullevål University Hospital and held this position until retirement in 2002. In the period 1993-2002 he was physician-in-chief at the Center of Preventive Medicine at Ullevål University Hospital. As a head of department of medical genetics at Ullevål University Hospital, Berg was in many years leader of all genetic prenatal diagnostics in Norway. In addition, he was in charge of genetic counseling of the population of Oslo.

Research

In the early days of his career Kåre Berg discovered the Lipoprotein(a), an inherited component in serum which increases the risk for cardiovascular disease. He maintained the research on Lp (a) throughout life. His other research was focusing on genetics in general and complex diseases like myocardial infarction in particular.