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Alan Berger, M.D.


Assistant Professor of Medicine

Specialties: Interventional Cardiology

Medical School: Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Residency: University Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Fellowships: Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C.; Yale-New Haven Medical Center, New Haven, Connecticut

Clinical Interests: Cardiac catheterization

Research Interests: Acute coronary syndromes and interventional catheterization, Utilization of reperfusion therapy for acute myocardial infarctions

Professional Organizations: American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, American Medical Association, Massachusetts Medical Society

Recent Publications:
Ko D, Wang Y, Berger AK, Radford MJ, Krumholz HM. Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs after acute myocardial infarction. Am Heart J 2002; 143(3):475-481.

Berger AK, Radford MJ, Krumholz HM. Cardiogenic shock complicating acute myocardial infarction in elderly patients: Does admission to a tertiary center improve survival? Am Heart J 2002; 143(5):768-776.

Apple FS, Murakami NM, Jesse RL, Levitt MA, Berger AK, Pearce LA, Collinson P. Near bedside whole blood cardiac troponin I assay for risk assessment of patients with acute coronary syndrome. Clin Chem 2002; 48:1784-1787.

Abbott BG, Afshar M, Berger AK, Wackers FJ. Prognostic significance of ischemic electrocardiographic changes during adenosine infusion in patients with normal myocardial perfusion imaging. J Nucl Cardiol 2003 Jan-Feb;10(1):9-16.

Book Chapter:
Berger AK,
Krumholz HM. Thrombolytic therapy in elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction. In: E Braunwald (ed.) Harrison’s Advances in Cardiology. NY: McGraw-Hill. 2002. pp 175-179 (chapter 27).


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