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.
Cherisse Berry, MD FACS is the Surgery Vice Chair of Academic Affairs and Professor of Surgery at Rutgers Health, New Jersey Medical School, Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care. Dr Berry completed her undergraduate degree in Neuroscience with a minor in French at the Johns Hopkins University. She went on to complete her Master's Degree in Biology at Harvard University, Medical Degree at the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, and General Surgery Residency at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA. She spent three years at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center/University of Maryland where she completed an Acute Care Surgery Fellowship and Trauma Research Fellowship before joining the Division of Acute Care Surgery at New York University Grossman School of Medicine where she held numerous leadership roles during her tenure including Division Chief of Acute Care Surgery, Medical Director of the Inpatient Surgery Unit, and Associate Trauma Medical Director at NYC Health & Hospitals-Bellevue.
Dr. Berry is double board certified by the American Board of Surgery (ABS) in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care and has had a formidable interest in research and trauma systems. She is a Reviewer for the Surgery, Anesthesiology, and Trauma (SAT) NIH Study Section and is R01 NIH-funded investigator with over 100 peer-reviewed published manuscripts/book chapters/editorials/commentaries. She has held numerous national leadership roles including Vice Chair and Education Pillar Lead of the American College of Surgeons Board of Governors Executive Committee, Chair of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST), Chair of the Women in Surgery Committee for the Society of Black Academic Surgeons, Examiner for the American Board of Surgery Certifying Exam, and she was recently elected a Fellow of the American Surgical Association.
Education
MD, 2004, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
Licensure & Certification
Medical Licensure New Jersey
Certification American Board of Surgery - Surgical Critical Care
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Health Equity in Emergency Trauma Care: Analysis of disparities in the pre-hospital emergency trauma
NIMHD/NIH R01 Funded Study- Trauma is the leading cause of death for children and adults 46 years and
younger, killing more Americans than AIDS and stroke combined. African Americans (OR 1.2, P<0.001), people
living in high poverty neighborhoods (OR 1.01, P<0.001), and those enrolled in public health insurance
programs (OR 1.53, P<0.001) have increased mortality after trauma when compared to their injured
counterparts. Quantifying the equity in access to Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and designated/verified
trauma centers (TCs), as well as the extent to which timely access to care improves health outcomes are
critical first steps to address this alarming discrepancy. Equitable availability to EMS has yet to be evaluated
and equitable access to TCs is understudied. In fact, no one has explored the importance of expeditious
availability to emergency health care services such as EMS and timely access to emergent trauma care as key
social determinants of health (SDOH). Models to evaluate the role of SDOH as major predictors of these
disparities remain untested. Rapid transport to a TC is associated with a 25% reduction in mortality; however,
nearly 45 million Americans lack timely access to a verified TC. When compared to white populations, recent
data show racial/ethnic minority populations have significantly less access to TC and worse outcomes
following trauma. Understanding the factors that determine trauma-related socio-spatial disparities can inform
interventions at both the policy and system levels to mitigate the disproportionately large numbers of deaths
experienced by minoritized populations. Thus, there is a compelling need for research in these areas to
facilitate targeted interventions to eliminate socio-spatial disparities within the pre-hospital phase of the
emergency trauma care system to improve patient outcomes. To evaluate socio-spatial disparities in
availability and access to both EMS and to TCs among critically injured trauma patients, we will apply the
Health Equity Measurable Framework (HEMF) to the pre-hospital phase of the emergency trauma care system
(availability to EMS, EMS response time, EMS scene time, EMS transportation time, EMS decision to transport
to TCs vs. non-TCs, and EMS total prehospital time) and use large national databases to develop
spatiotemporal models to assess drivers of disparities in traumatic injuries. HEMF will be particularly well
suited for our proposed study because it is designed to describe SDOH in a causal framework to guide the
quantitative analysis of health equity for ongoing pre-hospital trauma care surveillance of the critically injured
and subsequent policy development. Our interdisciplinary team will use data science methods and novel
analytics to address this critical public health need by identifying health disparities at the level of the pre-
hospital emergency trauma care system.
