ZackaryDovBergerMD

Internal Medicine • Baltimore, MD

Hospital Medicine/Hospitalist

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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Office
601 N Caroline St
Baltimore, MD 21287
Phone+1 443-287-6393

Summary

My interests center on achieving patient-centered care through patient-centered health research.

I am currently conducting a pioneering qualitative study of doctor-patient communication in the hospital, focusing on patients’ dialogues with their physicians. In addition, I have published on the importance of doctor-patient communication to patient satisfaction and on physician professionalism as it interacts with patient choice, and conducted research on how doctors and patients collaboratively set an agenda during the primary care visit.

I have the privilege of being Core Faculty in the Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice Center (EPC) and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Sciences and Outcomes Research. I have focused on patient-reported outcomes as a co-investigator on numerous systematic reviews, including those of continuous glucose monitoring and of treatments for Crohn’s disease. In addition, I was lead author of the chapter on patient and family engagement in a recent EPC critical analysis of patient safety practices.

I maintain an active internal medicine practice in the Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, and I'm a preceptor in the Adult Medicine housestaff clinic there. I'm involved in applying methods of quality improvement to the outpatient setting.

Education & Training

NYU Grossman School of MedicineResidency, Internal Medicine, 2006 - 2009
NYU Medical Center/Bellevue Hospital2006 - 2009
New York University School of MedicineClass of 2006
New York UniversityPhD, Epidemiology, 1998 - 2005
Watson FoundationFellowship, 1995 - 1996
California Institute of TechnologyBS, Biology, 1991 - 1995

Certifications & Licensure

MD State Medical License 2009 - 2026
NY State Medical License 2008 - 2010
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2013-2014
Osler Center Faculty Scholar Johns Hopkins, 2011-2012
Daniel E. Ford Award in Health Services and Prevention Research Johns Hopkins University Department of Medicine, 2008
New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 2003
Medical Scientist Training Program New York University, 1996
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

1 citations
Utilization of a primary care-based cancer survivorship clinic: patterns and patient characteristics.
Aamna Kabani, Victoria F Lenihan, Christiana Zhang, Zackary D Berger, Craig E Pollack
Journal of Cancer Survivorship. 2024-08-01
Response to the letter by Pieterse et al. regarding the submissive silence of others: Examining definitions of shared decision making.
Zackary Berger, Dariusz Galasinski, Peter Scalia, Kimberly Dong, Heather B Blunt
Patient Education and Counseling. 2022-07-01
1 citations
Language and Health (In)Equity in US Latinx Communities.
Zackary Berger, Yael Peled
AMA Journal of Ethics. 2022-04-01

Journal Articles

Predictors of first fill compliance with new asthma prescriptions: a retrospective cohort study.
Berger Z, Kimbrough W, Gillespie C, Hirsch A, Wood G, Qian Z, Shah N, American Health and Drug Benefits
Evidence-based medicine depends on intellectual conflicts.
Berger Z, Annals of Internal Medicine
Reason for hospital admission: a pilot study comparing patient statements to chart reports.
Berger Z, Dembitzer A, Beach MC, Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics
Can public reporting impact patient outcomes and disparities? A systematic review.
Berger Z, Joy S, Hutfless S, Bridges JFP, Patient Education and Counseling
Why do hospitals look like airports?
Berger Z, Brown SM, Annals of Internal Medicine
EHRs promote HEDIS – but is that quality?
Berger Z, J Gen Intern Med
Review of Peter Urbel, Critical Decisions.
Berger Z, American Journal of Bioethics
Progress in bioethics: science, policy, and politics, Foreword by Harold Shapiro.
Berger Z. Jonathan D. Moreno and Sam Berger, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
What Is Professionalism?—Reply
Smith S, Aguilar I, Berger ZD, et al, Arch Intern Med
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Books/Book Chapters

Talking To Your Doctor: A Patient’s Guide to Communication in the Exam Room and Beyond.
Berger ZRowman and Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, MD
Enabling Patient-Centered Care Through Health Information Technology.
Finkelstein J, Knight A, Marinopoulos S, Gibbons, MC, Berger Z, et alAgency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD
Making Health Care Safer II: An Updated Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Patient Safety Practices.
Chapter: Promoting engagement by patients and families to reduce adverse events
Berger Z, Flickinger F, Dy SEditors: Shekelle PG et al.Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD
Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Pharmacologic Therapies for the Management of Crohn’s Disease.
Hutfless S, Almashat S, Berger Z, et alAgency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD
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Abstracts/Posters

Validation of a brief questionnaire to screen asthmatic outpatients for asthma symptoms that are worse in relation to work.
Friedman-Jimenez G, Sturm TM, Reibman J, Harrison D, Rom WN, Zhang S, Berger Z, Matte T, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Bayesian and frequentist models: legitimate choices for different purposes.
Berger Z, Annals of Epidemiology
A case-control study of workplace exacerbation of asthma symptoms.
Berger Z, Kim M, Reibman J, Shore R, Friedman-Jimenez G, American Journal of Epidemiology
How could patients not know why they are in the hospital?
Berger Z, Dembitzer A, Medical Encounter
How do patients and physicians differ in their conceptualization of the reason for hospitalization?
Berger Z, Dembitzer A, Beach MC, Journal of General Internal Medicine
Agenda-setting in routine primary HIV encounters.
Berger Z et al, Journal of General Internal Medicine
Limited availability of inflammatory bowel disease trial results on ClinicalTrials.gov.
Blair R, Bass EB, Wilson LM, Hutfless S, Berger Z, Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Lectures

What is diabetes?
Seward Park Branch Library, New York Public Library, New York, NY
Assessing our own risk perception.
NYU Primary Care Residency Teaching Program, New York, NY
Coping with chronic physical and mental disease: the patient's perspective.
Tumulty Rounds
A patient’s perspective on multiple medical conditions, frequent hospitalizations, and specialists.
Tumulty Rounds
Differences of conceptualization of reason for admission between patient and chart.
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Washington, DC
Patients’ conception of the reason for their hospitalization and their exercise of autonomy in the hospital.
COMET 2012, Trondheim, Norway
Agenda-Setting in the Primary Care HIV Encounter.
International Conference on Communication in Healthcare, Chicago, Illinois
Numeracy in Health: from Research to Clinic.
Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona
Risky Business: Risk communication in the patient-provider encounter.
Society of General Internal Medicine, Mid-Atlantic Meeting, New York, New York
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Other

Cancer Screening Module.
Kottoor V, Berger Z, Peairs K, Johns Hopkins Internal Medicine Ambulatory Care Curriculum
http://www.hopkinsilc.org
Anxiety Module.
Berger ZD, Johns Hopkins Internal Medicine Ambulatory Care Curriculum
http://www.hopkinsilc.org
Methods for Insulin Delivery and Glucose Monitoring: Comparative Effectiveness.
Golden SH, Brown T, Yeh HC, Maruthur N, Ranasinghe P, Berger Z, et al, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK99217/
Rockville, MD

Press Mentions

Immunocompromised, Chronically Ill People Object to Baltimore Hospitals’ Decisions to Drop MaskingMay 17th, 2023
COVID-19 May Trigger Post-Viral SyndromesNovember 22nd, 2021
Coronavirus FAQ: What Is Long COVID? And What Is My Risk of Getting It?November 18th, 2021
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