Petra Klinge is a neurosurgeon and academic. She is professor of neurosurgery at Brown University.
Klinge earned her medical degree from the University of Kiel in 1993. [1] She conducted her neurosurgical residency at Hannover Medical School in Germany, completing it in 2002. [1] The same year, she earned her habilitation and postdoctoral qualification "venia legendi". [1]
Klinge was senior associate professor of neurosurgery at the International Neuroscience Institute in Hannover, Germany until 2009, when she became attending neurosurgeon and associate professor at Brown University. [1] She specializes in treating brain tumors, hydrocephalus and Alzheimer's disease, pediatric diseases, [2] [3] [4] and congenital diseases like Chiari malformation and spinal malformations. [1]
She is editor in chief of the medical journal Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery: Advanced Techniques and Case Management, a journal launched by Elsevier in 2013. [5] [6]