Hospital Affiliation

University Hospital, Newark

INSURANCE PARTICIPATION

Insurance Participation: with Provider Number (where applicable)
The information below is subject to change and should not be relied upon until after it is verified with the insurance company. In addition, psychiatric providers should be contacted directly for information on their participation with managed care and insurance companies.

Aetna, Inc.

AmeriGroup

AmeriHealth of NJ

America's Choice Provider Network (ACPN)

Amerivantage Dual Coordination

Clover Health Plans

Devon Health Services/ULLICO

Horizon BCBS Managed Care

Horizon NJ Health

Horizon NJ Total Care(HNJH)

Horizon PPO Network

Medicaid

Medicare

MultiPlan

Prime Health Services, Inc.

Qual Care HMO

Qual Care PPO

Three Rivers Provider Network

UHC Comm/Oxford

United Healthcare Community Plan (formerly AmeriChoice of NJ, Inc.)

VA Choice (Health Net Federal Services)

WellCare Health Plans

Overview

Dr. Berman trained in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Following training, he joined the faculty at Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine where he also served as the fellowship training program director. In 2011, Dr. Berman was recruited to NJMS to be the Division Director of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine. Soon after, he started the first combined division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine/Allergy and Immunologic Diseases at NJMS.

Dr. Berman is the Past-President of the New Jersey Thoracic Society and lectures and serves on committees for the American College of Chest Physicians,the American Thoracic Society and the American Lung Association. Dr. Berman directs the Pulmonary Course for medical students at NJMS and has been recognized for his teaching with awards from NJMS and the New Jersey Health Foundation. He has been a visiting professor at the University KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and periodically works with Project Medishare in Port-au-Prince and the Central Plateau of Haiti. His research interests include health care disparities and clinical outcomes research. Dr. Berman sees patients in his office with a wide variety of lung diseases, and has a special interest in the management of patients with sarcoidosis, COPD, and advanced lung diseases.

Education

M.D., 1988, Suny Stony Brook School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY
B.A., 1983, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

Licensure & Certification

Medical Licensure
New Jersey

Relevant Publications

Kang M, Raj V, Berman AR. A Man in His 20s With Diffuse Lung Opacities and Acute Respiratory Failure After Hookah Smoking. Chest. 2016 Dec;150 (6):e178

Imtiaz MA, Budnick LD, Berman AR. Influenza immunization among resident physicians in an urban teaching hospital. Am J Infection Control.2016 Apr 1;44(4):491-3

PS Richman, HL Saft, CR Messina, AR Berman, PA Selecky, RA Mularski, DE Ray, DW Ford. Palliative and end-of-life educational practices in US pulmonary and critical care training programs. J Crit Care. 2016 Feb;31(1):172-7.

A Berman, A Bavishi, J Bach. Pulmonary Rehabilitation for Patients with Lung Disease. In: Frontera WR, Silver JK, Rizzo TD Jr (eds): Essentials of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Musculoskeletal Disorders, Pain, and Rehabilitation, ed. 3, 800-807. Saunders Elsevier, Philadelphia 2014:.

HL Saft, PS Richman, AR Berman; RA Mularski; DE Ray, PA Selecky, DW Ford, S Asch. Impact of Critical Care Medicine Training Programs? Palliative Care Education and Bedside Tools on ICU Use at the End of Life. Journal of Graduate Medical Education. 6(1):44-9, 2014.

G Yuan, JR Bach, L Saporito, A Berman. Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy and Volume-cycled Mouth Piece Ventilation for a Patient with Multiple Sclerosis and Ventilatory Failure. American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. Am J Phys Med Rehabil. Jul;93(7):612-4, 2014.

JCM Brust, AR Berman, BA Zalta, LB Haramati, YN Ning, TL van der Merwe, S Bamber, AP Moll, GH Friedland, SS Shah, and NR Gandhi. Chest x-ray findings and time to culture conversion in patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV in Tugela Ferry, South Africa. PLoS One. 8(9): e73975, 2013.

S Jonnalagadda, JJ Lin, JE Nelson, CA Powell, JS Schicchi, AR Berman, S Keller, CB Smith, L Lurslurchachai, EA Halm, H Leventhal, JP Wisnivesky. Racial and Ethnic Differences in Beliefs about Lung Cancer Care. Chest. 142(5):1251-1258, 2012.

A Berman. Management of End-Stage COPD. In Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice.(38) 277-297, 2011.

R Duffy, A Berman, D Prezant, Eds. Lung Disease in Fire Fighters. New York, NY: The International Association of Firefighters (IAFF), 2010.

Course List

MED9210K

Pulmonary Diseases