ZacharyLouisBercuMDRPVI FSIR(He/Him)

Vascular & Interventional Radiology

Associate Professor, Emory University School of Medicine

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Dr. Zachary Bercu, based in Atlanta, GA, is a specialist in Radiology with sub-specialties in Vascular & Interventional Radiology. A graduate of Emory University School of Medicine, he has completed his internship, residency, and fellowship at prestigious institutions such as New York Medical College at St Vincent's Hospital and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Currently, he serves as an Associate Professor at Emory University School of Medicine and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is Program Director for the Interventional Radiology Integrated and Independent Residency Programs. He has extensive experience in various procedures including prostate artery embolization, radiofrequency tumor ablation, portal hypertension, hepatocellular carcinoma, venous thromboembolism, and uterine fibroid embolization. Dr. Bercu is a published author in esteemed journals and has been honored multiple times for his work in the field.

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiFellowship, Vascular and Interventional Radiology, 2014 - 2015
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Mount Sinai HospitalResidency, Radiology-Diagnostic, 2010 - 2014
New York Medical College at St Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center of New YorkInternship, Transitional Year, 2009 - 2010
Emory University School of MedicineClass of 2009
Harvard UniversityA.B., Psychology, Magna Cum Laude, 2000 - 2004
Harvard UniversityA.B., Psychology, Magna Cum Laude, 2004

Recipient, Fellow/Resident Activity Honorarium International Symposium on Endovascular therapy (ISET), 2014
4D Technology Pilot Grant Recipient Committee for Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, 2013
Poster Award SIR 2013, 2013
Winner, Best Case Presentation Award SIR Resident and Fellow Vascular Disease Service Line Angioclub, 2013
Recipient, Resident and Fellow Scholarship Synergy 2013: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Interventional Oncology,, 2013
Case of the Month ACR Case-in-Point, 2013
4D Technology Development Program Pilot Grant Center for Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (C-TIE), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 2013
Helyn B. Reich Scholarship American Zionist Movement, 2007
MASA Grant MASA Israel Journey, 2007
Honors Certificate in Psychopathology under the interdisciplinary Mind, Brain, and Behavior Program Harvard University, 2004
John Harvard Honorary Scholarship 2003
Harvard College Honorary Scholarship 2001
Harvard College Dean's List 2000
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PubMed

Evaluation of Multi-Lingual Simplifications of IR Procedural Reports Using GPT-4.
Hanzhou Hanssen Li, John T Moon, Sampath Kumar, Julian Ricci, Nathan Sim
Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. 2025-01-08
The price of dialysis access: Implications of access type and patient-centric approaches to cost.
Nathan Sim, Hanzhou Li, John T Moon, Anirudh Bikmal, Deepak Iyer
The Journal of Vascular Access. 2024-11-07
Health inequities, bias, and artificial intelligence.
Hanzhou Li, John T Moon, Vishal Shankar, Janice Newsome, Judy Gichoya
Techniques in Vascular and Interventional Radiology. 2024-09-01

Journal Articles

Differential Motivations for Pursuing Interventional Radiology: Implications for Residency Recruitment
Zachary Bercu, MD, Journal of the American College of Radiology
Lost in transition: one radiology resident's transitional year at a hospital lost to the ages
Bercu Z, Residents' and Fellows' Column, JACR, 1/1/2012
Neurological soft signs and minor physical anomalies in patients with schizophrenia and related disorders, their first-degree biological relatives, and non-psychiatric...
Compton MT, Bollini AM, Mack LM, Kryda AD, Rutland J, Weiss PS, Bercu Z, Esterberg ML, Walker EF, Schizophrenia Research, 1/1/2007
Associations between olfactory identification and verbal memory in patients with schizophrenia, first-degree relatives, and non-psychiatric controls
Compton MT, McKenzie ML, Esterberg ML, Bercu Z, Kryda AD, Quintero L, Weiss PS, Walker EF, Schizophrenia Research, 1/1/2006
Factor structure of the Neurological Evaluation Scale in a predominantly African American sample of patients with schizophrenia, unaffected relatives, and non-psychiat...
Compton MT, Bercu Z, Bollini A, Walker EF, Schizophrenia Research, 1/1/2006
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Modifying Institutional Guidelines Reduces the Likelihood of Oversedation During Interventional ProceduresMay 2018
Modifying Institutional Guidelines Reduces the Likelihood of Oversedation During Interventional ProceduresMay 2018
Opioid Prescribing Behavior of Interventional Radiologists Across the United StatesFebruary 2018

Emory First in Southeast to Use XACT ACE Robotic System to Improve Cancer DetectionNovember 2nd, 2022
European Health IT Delegation Tours Winship at Emory MidtownMarch 25th, 2024