Peter B. Berger is the Senior Vice President of Clinical Research throughout the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health Care System, the nation's 14th largest health care system, and one of the largest non-profit systems. He is also a Professor of Cardiology and of Medicine in the Hofstra North Shore - LIJ School of Medicine. Berger practices interventional cardiology at North Shore Hospital. Previously, Berger was the system-wide Chairman of Cardiology in the

Geisinger Health System Geisinger Health System (GHS) is a regional health care provider to central, south-central and northeastern Pennsylvania. Headquartered in Danville, Pennsylvania, Geisinger services over 3 million patients in 45 counties. History Geisinger is na ...

and Co-Director of the Geisinger Heart & Vascular Institute. Prior to assuming that position, he was the Associate Chief Research Officer at Geisinger Clinic and Director of the Center for Clinical Studies. He was also an

interventional cardiologist Interventional cardiology is a branch of cardiology that deals specifically with the catheter based treatment of structural heart diseases. Andreas Gruentzig is considered the father of interventional cardiology after the development of angioplasty ...

at Geisinger. Before joining Geisinger in July 2006, Berger was a Professor of Medicine and the Director of

Interventional Cardiology Interventional cardiology is a branch of cardiology that deals specifically with the catheter based treatment of structural heart diseases. Andreas Gruentzig is considered the father of interventional cardiology after the development of angioplasty ...

at the

Duke University Medical Center Duke University Hospital is a 957-acute care bed academic tertiary care facility located in Durham, North Carolina. Established in 1930, it is the flagship teaching hospital for the Duke University Health System, a network of physicians and hosp ...

. From 1990 to 2004, Dr. Berger worked at the

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College of Medicine as a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology. He has served on and chaired the

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Committee on Diagnostic and Interventional Catheterization, as well as served on the

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and Society of Coronary Angiography and Intervention's Cardiac Catheterization and Interventional Cardiology Committees. Berger has served on the steering committees of many of the cardiology trials that have shaped clinical practice in the last 20 years. Berger has authored more than 300 original articles and 21 editorials, co-authored 5 Guideline documents and edited many others, published 42 commentaries on clinical trials (many 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 hundreds of educational lectures in the US and abroad. He has served on the editorial boards of more than a dozen journals. During his time at Duke,

Berger Berger is a surname in both German language, German and French language, French, although there is no etymological connection between the names in the two languages. The French surname is an occupational name for a shepherd, from Old French ''bergi ...

hosted a nationally televised cath lab conference that was seen live via the GE TiP-TV hospital network or online each week by as many as 5000 viewers. In July 2009, Berger was featured on CNN as part of an examination of Geisinger's unique healthcare plan. Berger was born in 1956 in

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. He received his medical degree from

NYU Medical School NYU Grossman School of Medicine is a medical school of New York University, a Private university, private research university in New York City. It was founded in 1841 and is one of two medical schools of the university, with the other being the L ...

and did his residency and fellowship at

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and

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.
His wife, Nina Charnoff, is a pediatric

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Berger, Peter B. 1956 births Living people American cardiologists New York University Grossman School of Medicine alumni Duke University faculty Physicians from Queens, New York People from Danville, Pennsylvania