Assistant Professor
Core Faculty, Evidence-Based Practice Center

Joint Departmental Affiliation
Health, Behavior and Society, Bloomberg School of Public Health

Academic Degrees
BS, California Institute of Technology, 1995
PhD, New York University, 2005
MD, New York University School of Medicine, 2006

Residency
New York University-Bellevue Hospital, primary care, 2009

Contact
Email: zberger1@jhmi.edu
Office phone: 443-287-6393
Office fax: 410-614-1195

Research and Professional interests
Patient-provider communication, bioethics, clinical epidemiology, and the primary care physician’s role in cancer control.

          
Dr. Berger's publications:

Berger Z. You're the Doctor. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2012 Sep 25. PMID: 23007633.  (PubMed link)

Yeh HC, Brown TT, Maruthur N, Ranasinghe P, Berger Z, Suh YD, Wilson LM, Haberl EB, Brick J, Bass EB, Golden SH. Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Methods of Insulin Delivery and Glucose Monitoring for Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2012 Jul 10:E-508. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-157-5-201209040-00508. PMID: 22777524.  (PubMed link)

Srinivas SV, Deyo RA, Berger ZD. Application of “less is more” to low back pain. Archives of Internal Medicine. 2012 Jul 9;172(13):1016-20. PMID: 22664775. (PubMed link)

Berger ZD. Re: Appropriate use of screening and diagnostic tests to foster high-value, cost-conscious care. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2012 Jun 19;156(12):902; author reply 903-4. PMID: 22711089.  (PubMed link)

Berger ZD. Re: Appropriate use of screening and diagnostic tests to foster high-value, cost-conscious care. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2012 Jun 19;156(12):902; author reply 903-4. PMID: 22711089. (PubMed link)

Berger Z. Understanding communication to repair difficult patient-doctor relationships from within. American Journal of Bioethics. 2012;12(5):15-6. PMID: 22548515.  (PubMed link)

Good Stewardship Working Group [includes Berger ZD]. The "top 5" lists in primary care: meeting the responsibility of professionalism. Archives of Internal Medicine. 2011 Aug 8;171(15):1385-90. PMID: 21606090.  (PubMed link)

Berger Z. Bayesian and frequentist models: legitimate choices for different purposes of clinical research. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 2010 Dec;16(6):1045-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2009.01247.x.  (PubMed link)

Berger ZD. Guidelines and conflicts of interest. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2010 Sep 21;153(6):421; author repy 422.  (PubMed link)

Berger Z, Kimbrough W, Gillespie C, Boscarino JA, Wood GC, Qian Z, Jones JB, Shah NR. Lower copay and oral administration: predictors of first-fill adherence to new asthma prescriptions. American Health & Drug Benefits, 2009 Jun-Jul;2(4):174-9. (CINAHL Plus abstract)

Berger Z, Rom WN, Reibman J, Kim M, Zhang S, Luo L, Friedman-Jiménez G. Prevalence of workplace exacerbation of asthma symptoms in an urban working population of asthmatics. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2006 Aug;48(8):833-9.  (PubMed link)