Books By Peter Burger - Author

Dr Peter Burger is professor of pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, a position he has held for sixteen years. He attended Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, and Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois. His general pathology and neuropathology training were done at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina. Following the latter, he joined the faculty at Duke, rising to the rank of professor, a position he held there until his move to Johns Hopkins. The author of almost four hundred scientific publications, he is an international authority on the diagnosis and classification of lesions of the central nervous system. He has co-authored seven widely used textbooks, or editions thereof, that emphasise practical approaches to diagnosis of central nervous system lesions.