Peter B. Berger

Peter B. Berger, M.D. is the Associate Chief Research Officer at Geisinger Clinic and Director of the Center for Clinical Studies, and is in charge of clinical research throughout the 3 hospital 40 clinic Geisinger Health System. He is also an interventional cardiologist at Geisinger. Before joining Geisinger in July 2006, he was a Professor of Medicine and the Director of Interventional Cardiology at the Duke University Medical Center. [Wood, Shelley. "Dr Peter Berger leaving Duke for Geisinger Health System" Heartwire. May 9, 2006 http://www.theheart.org/article/696961.do]

From 1989 to 2004, Dr. Berger worked at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine as a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology. He has served on (and chaired) the American Heart Association Committee on Diagnostic and Interventional Catheterization, and on a number of other committees. Dr. Berger is a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine and helps write the interventional cardiology board exam. Dr. Berger received his medical degree from NYU Medical School and did his residency and fellowship at Boston City Hospital and Boston University Medical Center.

Dr. Berger has served on the steering committees of many of the cardiology trials that have shaped clinical practice in the last 20 years. Dr. Berger has authored more than 200 original articles and 13 editorials, published 36 commentaries on clinical trials as the former Director of Clinical Trials for MD Consult, authored or co-authored 17 book chapters, edited 2 books, authored 11 invited publications, developed 10 educational tapes, and given over 200 educational lectures in the US and abroad.

During his time at Duke, Dr. Berger hosted a nationally televised cath lab conference that was seen live via the GE TiP-TV hospital network or via cathlabconference.org each week by as many as 5000 viewers. [Bio of Dr. Peter Berger on Geisinger Medical Center Website. http://www.geisinger.org/professionals/research/gchr/bios/berger.html]

Dr. Berger was born in 1956 in Queens, New York. He now lives in Danville, PA, with his wife, Nina Charnoff, who works as a Pediatric Anesthesiologist also at Geisinger Clinic.

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