Contact: Myrna Manners, Kathleen Robinson, Peggy Sung
Phone: (212) 821-0560
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MICHAEL A. BERMAN, M.D. NAMED EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR
OF NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL
New York, NY (June, 1999)—Michael A. Berman, M.D., renowned
pediatric cardiologist and an expert on faculty practice plans and clinical
productivity issues, has been named Executive Vice President and Director
of New York Presbyterian Hospital.
Dr. Berman joined New York Presbyterian Hospital in 1997 as Senior Vice
President and Chief Medical Officer. Prior to that, he served
as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the University
of Maryland School of Medicine. During his tenure at Maryland, he
was elected president of University Physicians, Inc., the faculty practice
plan for the University of Maryland, and also served as chairman of the
physician’s and hospital’s malpractice self-insurance program.
Dr. Berman began his medical career as a pediatric cardiologist for
the National Heart Institute at the National Institutes of Health.
He also held positions as the chief of clinical pediatric cardiology and
director of the cardiac
catheterization laboratory at Yale University School of Medicine.
From there, he moved to the University of Maryland to serve as director
of pediatric cardiology until his appointment as chairman of pediatrics
in 1984.
A native of Brooklyn, Dr. Berman received his medical degree in 1967
from the State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center at Syracuse,
and subsequently, his post-graduate training in pediatrics at the Johns
Hopkins School of Medicine.
Among his accomplishments is the development of a flow-guided balloon
catheter — the Berman Angiographic Catheter — which is used in hospitals
throughout the world. He has also published extensively on pediatric
cardiology and has received many awards and honors for his research in
this area.
New York Presbyterian Hospital is the largest academic health center
in New York and one of the largest and most comprehensive healthcare institutions
in the world, with 2,515 beds, 89,500 patient discharges annually, 1,003,542
ambulatory care visits annually, 6,217 physicians and $1.5 billion in revenues.
The Hospital, which was formed by the full asset merger of The New York
Hospital and The Presbyterian Hospital on December 31, 1997, offers a full
range of healthcare services in all medical and surgical specialties and
subspecialties. New York Presbyterian Hospital Healthcare Network links
acute care and community hospitals, long-term care facilities, home health
agencies, ambulatory sites and other healthcare entities committed to providing
high quality, cost-effective and conveniently accessible care to the communities
they serve.
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Hospital
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