Department of Internal Medicine

Pulmonary, Critical Care and
Occupational Medicine Faculty

Herbert A. Berger, M.D.
Clinical Professor

Dr. Berger's clinical and teaching interests are in general pulmonary, critical care disease, and sleep medicine. Dr. Berger is in the Clinician Educator Track and director of the Intermediate Pulmonary Care Unit. His clinical research interests include developing protocols to evaluate and treat patients with complex sleep disordered breathing. He is involved in a Sleep Academic Award Program from the NHLBI to develop and enhance the education of sleep medicine throughout The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.

Honors, Awards, and Organizations

Above and Beyond the Call of Duty Recognition
American Academy of Sleep Medicine, Member
American College of Chest Physicians, Fellow
American College of Physicians - American Society of Internal Medicine, Fellow
American Federation for Medical Research, Regular Member
American Thoracic Society, Full Member
Central Society for Clinical Research, Member
Parker B. Francis Fellowship Award

Herbert Berger photo

Medical School:
Loyola Stritch School of Medicine, Chicago

Residency:
University of Michigan

Fellowship:
The University of Iowa

Recent Publications

Berger, HA, Somers, VK, and Phillips, B.G.Z: Sleep Disordered Breathing and Hypertension. Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine. 7:386-390, 2001
Baldursson, O, Berger, HA, and Welsh, MJ: Contribution of R Domain Phosphoserines to the Function of CFTR Studied in Fischer Rat Thyroid Epithella. Am. J. Physiol. (Lung Cell Mol. Physiol.) 279(5):L835-L841, 2000.
Berger, H.A., Travis, S.M., and Welsh, M.J.: Fluoride Stimulates Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator Cl - Channel Activity. Am. J. Physiol. (Lung Cell. Mol. Physiol) 18:L305-L312, 1998.

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