Dr. Michael Berman is the President of The Michael A. Berman Group, a healthcare consulting firm, and Chairman of US Invest Group, a US-based corporation with a unique license to develop hospitals and ambulatory centers throughout China.
As Executive Vice President and Hospital Director of New York-Presbyterian Hospital for seven years, Dr. Berman led the integration efforts that enabled the merger of Columbia-Presbyterian and New York Hospital - Cornell Medical Center.
Prior, Dr. Berman served as Professor and Chairman of Pediatrics at the University of Maryland and established its Division of Pediatric Cardiology; he also created Maryland’s Hospital for Children. He was also President of the UM Faculty Practice Foundation and President of UM’s Self-Insurance Program for Hospital & Physicians.
In his early career, he was Director of the Pediatric Catheterization Laboratory at Yale University where he invented the Berman Balloon Angiographic Catheter, known as the standard catheter for infants and children’s heart catheterizations worldwide.
He is currently a Senior Advisor for Lucania Partners and has consulted for Berkeley Research Group (Vanderbilt University), McKinsey & Company (nationally and internationally), Huron, Johnson & Johnson, GE, Phillips Medical, Visicu, and others. Dr. Berman was a member of the Board of Directors of Cadence Pharmaceuticals, playing an instrumental role in bringing it public.
Dr. Berman was also a Personal Consultant for the Dean of the USC Keck School of Medicine and the Dean of the Yale School of Medicine; he was interim CEO of the Yale Medical Group (Faculty Practice Group of Yale School of Medicine), charged with transforming the 19 separate departments into one centralized faculty group practice.
Dr. Berman holds an M.D. from the State University of New York, Syracuse, and completed an internship in the Department of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital followed by 2 years at the National Institute of Health’s Heart, Lung and Blood Institution as their Pediatric Cardiologist.
He has published and lectured extensively on Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology, and Hospital & Physician Management, Efficiency & Strategy issues. Dr. Berman is recognized as an expert on formal and informal mentoring for executives, corporations, and students. Creative and strategic thinking; leadership; growing organizations; thriving during change and a demonstrated commitment to sound business practices have characterized Dr. Berman’s career.
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