Dr Kjell \u00d6berg is Professor of Endocrine Oncology at the Medical Faculty of Uppsala University. He was the former head of the Department of Endocrine Oncology, University Hospital, and he is a specialist in endocrinology and internal medicine. He founded the Department of Endocrine Oncology at Uppsala University Hospital and has 40 years\u2019 experience in the field of neuroendocrine tumors. Between 1986 and 1992 he was clinical associate director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. From 1998 to 2002 he was chairman of the Department of Medical Sciences at the Medical Faculty of Uppsala University. July 2002 until June 2008 he was the Dean of the Medical Faculty. He was the chairman of the Centre of Excellence of Endocrine Tumors and Vice chairman of the Department of Endocrine Oncology, University Hospital, Uppsala until May 2013, at present time he is senior advisor at the same department. Currently, Adjunct Professor of Surgery at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA. Dr \u00d6berg was one of the founders and coordinator of the European Neuroendocrine Tumor Network (ENET) 1995-2000 and was past chairman of the Nordic Neuroendocrine Tumor Group. He has pioneered the treatment of carcinoid tumor patients with interferon and somatostatin analogues and developed assays for tumor markers such as Chromogranin A and radiological procedures, including specialized PET scans. In 1988 he was the first to describe a genetic deletion in multiple endocrine neoplasia Type 1 (MEN1). Dr \u00d6berg has given many hundreds of presentations at international meetings and published more than 500 papers within his research field, H-factor 67 and 14,850 citations. In addition he is the author of numerous chapters on Carcinoid tumors in several international textbooks including William\u2019s Textbook of Endocrinology, Leslie de Groot\u2019s Textbook of Endocrinology, Clinical Endocrinology and Fordtran\u2019s Textbook of Gastroenterology. Dr \u00d6berg is Editor-in Chief of World Journal of Gastroenterolgy (WJG). In 1991 Dr \u00d6berg received the European Interferon Research reward. In 2003 he received the award \u201cEminent Scientist Year 2003\u201d by the International Research Promotion Council (IRPC) and World Scientist Forum and in 2004 he was awarded the European Gold Medal in Endocrinology from the English Endocrine Society. In November 2006 he received the Harry Bostr\u00f6m Award Lecture at Swedish Medical Society, and in 2011 the University Hospital Clinical Research Award. In 2014 he received the Rudbeck Medallion for excellence in research and the Life Time Achievement Award from North American Neuroendocrine Society. January 2017 Dr \u00d6berg was awarded with The Swedish Endocrine Society Gold Medal for prominent research and clinical activities and in March 2017 he received Lifetime Achievement Award by European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (ENETS). In October of 2017, Lifetime Achievement from Asian Pacific Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (AP-NETS). Dr \u00d6berg is a member of the Royal Society of Sciences, member of Swedish Society of Medical Research, Honorary member of Finnish Oncology Society, Finnish Endocrine Society and Honorary member of Spanish Neuroendocrine NET-work. Dr \u00d6berg is Vice President of ENETS since March 2012 and also a member of NANETS Advisory Board as well as several other national and international research and scientific boards and many scientific journal review boards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":{"id":1,"first_name":"Francisco","nickname":"Superadmin","email":"jose.santos@cor2ed.com"},"featured_media":426,"menu_order":288,"template":"","groups":[],"class_list":["post-427","experts","type-experts","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"expert_info_prefix":"Prof.","expert_info_first-name":"Kjell","expert_info_last-name":"\u00d6berg","expert_info_institution":"Uppsala University Hospital","expert_info_country":"SE","expert_info_specialization":"Endocrinologist","expert_info_map-code":"","expert_info_disclosures":"
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