Stuart Berger, MD

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Specialty(ies)

• Cardiology
• Cardiology, Pediatric
• Pediatrics

Board Certification(s)

• Pediatric Cardiology
• Pediatrics

Education

• MD: University of Wisconsin (Madison, Wis.), 1975 - 1979.
• Residency: University of Chicago (Chicago), Pediatrics, 1979 - 1982.
• Fellowship: University of Chicago (Chicago), Pediatric Cardiology, 1982 - 1985.

Employment

• 1985-1990: Assistant professor of Pediatrics, University of Chicago.
• 1991-1992: Clinical assistant professor of Pediatrics, University of Chicago.
• 1991-2002: Associate professor, Pediatric Cardiology, Medical College of Wisconsin.
• 2002-present: Professor, Pediatric Cardiology, Medical College of Wisconsin.

• Member of the Board of the American Medical Athletic Association.
• Member of the Advisory Board of TCHIN, The Children's Health Information Network.
• Candidate for Executive Board of American Running Association.
• Candidate for Executive Board Member of the President's Council of Physical Fitness and Sports, (appointed by President George W. Bush), 2001.
• Invited to participate in writing the guidelines for diagnosis and therapy of Heart Failure in Children: A joint project by ISHLT, AHA and ACC.
• Member of Consortium for Pediatric Cardiac Transplantation
• Affiliate Member of the Chicago Heart Association.
• Member of Wisconsin Tobacco Control Board, appointed by Governor Tommy Thompson, 2000.
• Councilor of the Wisconsin Chapter of the American College of Cardiology, 2000.
• Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
• Fellow of the American College of Cardiology - Appointed as Councilor of Wisconsin Chapter of ACC, January 2000.
• Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians.
• Society of Critical Care Medicine.
• American Medical Athletic Association - Board Member, elected in April 1999.
• Member of the American Heart Association.
• Executive Board Member of Wisconsin Chapter of the American Heart Association.
• Member of the Council of Cardiovascular Diseases of the Young, American Heart Association.
• Member Advisory Board American Heart Association, Metro Milwaukee Area.
• Voluntary Advocacy Committee, Milwaukee.
• Regional Consortium, Research Committee.
• International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation.
• Wisconsin Cardiothoracic Transplant Society.

Original research published

1. Tweddell JS, Hoffman GM, Fedderly RT, Ghanayem NS, Mussatto KA, Berger S. Strategies to Improve Survival of Patients Undergoing Stage I Palliation for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. Presented at the Midwest Pediatric Cardiology Meeting, September 2000, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
2. Berger S, Cava J, Pelech A, Hoffman G, Jaquiss R, Tweddell J. ECMO and Transcatheter Left Decompression in an Infant with Acute, Severe Heart Failure. Poster Session, 5^th Pediatric Interventional Catheter Symposium, May 23, 2001, Toronto.
3. Berger S, Cava J, Pelech A, Hoffman G, Jaquiss R, Tweddell J. ECMO and Transcatheter Left Decompression in an Infant with Acute, Severe Heart Failure. Moderated Poster Session, World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology, May 28, 2001, Toronto.
4. Berger S, Cava J, Pelech A, Hoffman G, Jaquiss R, Tweddell J. ECMO and Transcatheter Left Heart Decompression in an Infant with Acute, Severe Heart Failure. General Poster Session, World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology, May 30, 2001, Toronto.
5. Berger S, Whitstone B, Frisbee S, Bauer K, Petasnick D, Sachdeva R. A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Project ADAM For High Schools in the Milwaukee Public High School System. Moderated Poster Session, World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology, May 30, 2001, Toronto.
6. Berger S, Whitstone B, Hoffman G, Pelech A, Jaquiss R, Rice T, et al. The Experience with Primary Pulmonary Hypertension at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. Can We Predict Who Will Respond to Vasodilator Therapy? Poster Presentation, World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology, May 29, 2001, Toronto.
7. Berger S, Biller J, Pelech A, Cava J, Recto M, et al. Stroke in a Young Man with Cystic Fibrosis after Lung Transplantation, Poster Presentation, World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology, May 29, 2001, Toronto.
8. Berger S, Hoffman G, Pelech A, Fedderly R. Chronic and Continuous Measurement of Mixed Venous Oxygen Saturation and Pulmonary Artery Pressure in Patients with Pulmonary Artery Hypertension: Effects of Exercise. Poster Presentation, World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology, May 29, 2001, Toronto..
9. Hoffman G, Ghanayem N, Mussatto K, Stuth E, Berger S, Tweddell J. Phenoxybenzamine Prevents Hemodynamic Deterioration at High Oxygen Saturation in Neonates After the Norwood Procedure for HLHS. Poster Presentation, World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology, May 28, 2001, Toronto.
10. Pelech A, Strong C, Dao M, Berger S, Fedderly R, et al. Aortic Valve Stenosis: A Thirty Year Experience. Poster Presentation, World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology, May 28, 2001, Toronto.
11. Fedderly R, Pelech A, Berger S. Selection of Occlusion Devices for PDA: Gianturco Coil and/or Amplatzer Duct Occluder? Poster Presentation, World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology, May 30, 2001, Toronto.
12. Dhala A, Berger S, Frommelt M, Frommelt P, et al. Clinical Experience with the Implantable Cardioveter-Defibrillator in Children with Congenital Long QT Syndrome. Presented at the Midwest Pediatric Cardiology Society, September 2000, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
13. Berger S, Hoffman G, Pelech A, Fedderly R. Chronic and Continuous Measurement of Mixed Venous Oxygen Saturation and Pulmonary Artery Pressure in Patients with Pulmonary Artery Hypertension: Effects of Exercise. Presentation, Midwest Pediatric Cardiology Society, September 2002, Chicago.
14. Frommelt PC, Berger S, Pelech AN, Bergstrom S, Williamson JG. Prospective Identification of Anomalous Origin of the Left Coronary Artery from the Right Sinus of Valsalva: Importance of Color Doppler Flow Mapping. Presentation at Midwest Pediatric Cardiology Society, September 2002, Chicago.

Publications

1. Berger S, Dhala A, Freidberg D. Sudden Cardiac Death in Infants, Children and Adolescents. In Pediatric Clinics of North America, 46; 221-234. WB Saunders, April 1999.
2. Berger S, Tweddell J, Frommelt P and Weinhaus L. Partial Left Ventriculotomy for Dilated Cardiomyopathy in a Newborn. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999; 117:1017-8.
3. Fedderly R, Berger S, Frommelt P, et al. Advances in the care of children with heart disease. Review of 1997 and Care in the Upcoming Millenium. Wisconsin Medical Journal; Spring 1998.
4. Tweddell J, Hoffman G, Fedderly R, Berger S, Thomas J, Ghanayem N, et al. Phenoxybenzamine Improves Systemic Oxygen Delivery After the Norwood Procedure. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 1999; 67:161-8
5. Tweddell J, Hoffman G, Fedderly R, Ghanayem N, Kampine J, Berger S, et al. Patients at Risk for Low Systemic Oxygen Delivery Following the Norwood Procedure for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. Ann Thorac Surg, 69: 1898-9, 2000.
6. Hoffman G, Ghanayem N, Kampine J, Berger S, Mussatto K, Litwin B, Tweddell J. Venous Saturation and Anaerobic Threshold in Neonates After the Norwood for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. Ann Thorac Surg, 2000; 70:1515-21.
7. Frommelt PC, Berger S, Pelech AN, Bergstrom S, Williamson JG. Prospective Identification of Anomalous Origin of the Left Coronary Artery from the Right Sinus of Valsalva: Importance of Color Doppler Flow Mapping. Pediatric Cardiology, 22, 4: 327-332, 2001.
8. Berger S, Cava J, Pelech A, Jaquiss R, Frommelt P, Fedderly R, and Tweddell J. Mechanical support of Children with Acute Heart Failure. Submitted to the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 9/01.
9. Tweddell JS, Hoffman GM, Mussatto KA, Fedderly RT, Berger S, Jaquiss RD, Ghanayem NS, Frisbee S, and Litwin SB. Improved Survival of Patients with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome: Lessons Learned From 115 Consecutive Patients. Circulation 2002 Sep 24; 106(12 Suppl 1): 182-9.
10. Berger S, Frisbee S, Miner J, Pirallo R, Whitstone B, et al. The Cost-Effectiveness of Project ADAM: A Project to Place AEDs in High Schools in Wisconsin. Pediatric Cardiology, 2004.