Christine Berg, MD

Dr. Christine Berg provides strategic medical and scientific guidance to ensure that the Foundation’s activities in early detection are scientifically rigorous, clinically relevant, and aligned with our goals to develop new early lung cancer detection technology and expand screening guidelines.

Chris is a radiation oncologist and physician-scientist who previously served as chief of the early detection research group at the National Cancer Institute from 2003 to 2012. She completed a M.D. at the Northwestern University School of Medicine. She completed a residency in internal medicine from 1977 to 1981 at the McGaw Medical Center. Chris completed a fellowship in medical oncology from 1981 to 1984 at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. She was a resident in radiation oncology from 1984 to 1986 with Georgetown University Medical Center.

From 2003 to 2012, she was co-lead of the National Lung Screening Trial. Subsequently, Chris was on contract to the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at NCI departing in 2019. In 2019, she was recognized by Marquis Who's Who for her leadership in the field of radiation oncology, and received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award.