Berta Jereb

Who is Berta Jereb?

Berta Jereb is a Slovenian oncologist and the first Slovenian radiotherapist. She studied medicine in Vienna, in Ljubljana and in Beograd and graduated in Ljubljana in 1950. In 1955, she specialised in radiotherapy and defended her Masters Thesis at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. In 1973, she departed for the United States, where she worked in the Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center from 1973 till 1975 and from 1977 till 1984. For numerous years, she also worked at the Institute of Oncology Ljubljana. Since 1993, she is a full professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ljubljana. Her main work has centred on pediatric oncology, especially nephroblastoma. She was a founding member and from 1976 till 1980 the president of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology.