Robert A Berg, M.D.
Professor CE of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Department: Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Contact information
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Division of Critical Care
34th Street & Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4399
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Division of Critical Care
34th Street & Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4399
Office: 267-426-3014
Fax: 215-590-4327
Fax: 215-590-4327
Email:
bergra@email.chop.edu
bergra@email.chop.edu
Education:
B.S. (Literature, Science, and Arts)
University of Michigan, 1971.
M.D. (Medicine)
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, 1975.
Permanent linkB.S. (Literature, Science, and Arts)
University of Michigan, 1971.
M.D. (Medicine)
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, 1975.
Selected Publications
Gathers CL, Morgan RW, Alvey JS, Reeder R, Goldberger ZD, Fowler J, Naim MY, O'Halloran A, Merchant RM, Kienzle M, Nadkarni V, Berg RA, Sutton RM; American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Resuscitation Investigators: Race is not associated with medical emergency team evaluation prior to in-hospital cardiac arrest. Resuscitation 211(110609), June 2025.Morgan RW, Reeder RW, Carcillo JA, Carpenter TC, Fitzgerald JC, Graham K, Kilbaugh TJ, Meert KL, Nadkarni VM, Palmer CA, Sharron MP, Weiss SL, Wolfe HA, Ahmed T, Bell MJ, Bishop R, Burns C, Diddle JW, Fink EL, Franzon D, Frazier AH, Friess SH, Hehir DA, Horvat CM, Huard LL, Maa T, McQuillen PS, Mourani PM, Naim MY, Pollack MM, Sapru A, Srivastava N, Yates AR, Berg RA, Sutton RM; ICU-Resuscitation Project (ICU-RESUS) Investigators and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network Investigators: Outcomes, Characteristics, and Physiology of In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Children With Sepsis. Critical Care Medicine June 2025.
Siems A, Naim MY, Berg RA, Reeder RW, Ahmed T, Bell MJ, Bishop R, Bochkoris M, Burns C, Carcillo JA, Carpenter TC, Dean JM, Diddle JW, Federman M, Fernandez R, Fink EL, Franzon D, Frazier AH, Friess SH, Graham K, Hall M, Harding ML, Hehir DA, Horvat CM, Huard LL MD, Kilbaugh TJ, Maa T, Manga A, McQuillen PS, Meert KL, Mourani PM, Nadkarni VM, Notterman D, Pollack MM, Qunibi DW, Sapru A, Schneiter C, Sharron MP, Srivastava N, Tabbutt S, Tilford B, Viteri S, Wessel D, Wolfe HA, Yates AR, Zuppa AF, Morgan RW, Sutton RM: Association of Early Epinephrine with Hemodynamics and Outcome in Pediatric In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Secondary Analysis of a Multi-center, Cluster-randomized Clinical Trial (ICU-RESUS). Annals of the American Thoracic Society June 2025.
Morgan RW, Berg RA: The Hemodynamic Response to Epinephrine during CPR: A Renewed Call for Precision Resuscitation. Resusctiation 110635, May 2025.
Zuckerberg JC, Ko T, Weeks MK, Widmann NJ, Kienzle MF, Gaudio HA, Silva LE, Reeder RW, Sutton RM, Berg RA, Kilbaugh TJ, Morgan RW: Evaluation of coronary perfusion pressure and diastolic blood pressure calculation methods in a swine model of pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Resuscitation Plus 23: 100928, May 2025.
Gathers CL, Rossano JW, Griffis H, McNally B, Al-Araji R, Berg RA, Chung S, Nadkarni VM, Tobin JM, Naim MY: Sociodemographic Disparities in Incidence and Survival for Pediatric Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in the United States. Resuscitation 110607, April 2025.
Markiewitz ND, Wang Y, Berg RA, Yehya N, Dixon C, Mercer-Rosa L, Himebauch AS: Right Atrial Dysfunction Is Prevalent in Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Reflects Pulmonary Hypertension and Right Ventricular Dysfunction. Critical Care Explorations 7(3): e1230, March 2025.
Padiyath F, Padiyath A, Berg RA, Nadkarni VM, Garcia-Marcinkiewicz A, Shults J, Nishisaki A, for the National Emergency Airway Registry for Children (NEAR4KIDS) Investigators: Preventing Arrest: Comparative Analysis of Cardiac Arrest and Non-Arrest Cases in the NEAR4KIDS Registry. SPA/AAP Pediatric Anesthesiology 2025 March 2025 Notes: Poster Presentation at SPA/AAP Pediatric Anesthesiology 2025 Meeting, March 29th, 2025, Orlando, Florida.
Berg RA, Shepard LN: Management of acute hyperkalemia: Where's the data behind the old dogma? Resuscitation 208: 110525, March 2025.
Kishida M, Berg RA, Napolitano N, Berkenbosch J, Talukdar A, Jung P, Malone MP, Parsons SJ, Harwayne-Gidansky I, Nett S, Glater L, Krawiec C, Shenoi A, Al-Subu A, Polikoff L, Kelly SP, Adams CK, Giuliano JS Jr, Ambati S, Tellez D, Martin RJ, Lee A, Breuer RK, Biagas KV, Mallory PP, Corbett KL, Bysani GK, Ducharme-Crevier L, Wirkowski S, Pinto M, Toal M, Marlow RK, Adu-Darko M, Shults J, Nadkarni V, Nishisaki A; National Emergency Airway Registry for Children (NEAR4KIDS) and Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network: Tracheal Intubation by Attending Physicians in a U.S. Registry, 2016-2020: Analysis by PICU Participation in a Skills Maintenance Program and Fellowship Training. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 26(2): e166-e176, February 2025.