Dr. Kerstin Bettermann has been named chief of neurology for UPMC Neurological Institute and hospital services in central and north central Pennsylvania. She will have clinical oversight of eight UPMC Neurological Institute locations serving Annville, Carlisle, Harrisburg, Hershey, Lancaster, Mechanicsburg, Spring Grove and Williamsport.
Bettermann was most recently a professor of neurology and chief of the divisions of vascular and critical care neurology at Virginia Commonwealth University. Before that, she was a professor of neurology at Penn State College of Medicine and a neurologist with Penn State Health.
She received her medical degree and a doctorate in neurophysiology from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and she completed residency training programs in neurology at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and in psychiatry at Henrich-Heine University of Dusseldorf, Germany. Bettermann then completed a neurology residency and a vascular neurology fellowship at Wake Forest University.
