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
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.Fernandez RP, McConnell PI, Reeder RW, Alvey JS, Berg RA, Meert KL, Morgan RW, Nadkarni VM, Wolfe HA, Sutton RM, Yates AR, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network and ICU-RESUScitation Project Investigators: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation employing only abdominal compressions in infants after cardiac surgery: A secondary sub-analysis of the ICU-RESUS study. Resuscitation Plus 20, December 2024.
Gardner MM, Morgan RW, Reeder R, Ghaffari K, Ortmann L, Raymond T, Lasa JJ, Fowler J, Dewan M, Nadkarni VM, Berg R, Sutton R, Topjian AA, for the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines, ®-Resuscitation Investigators: Trends in cardiac arrest outcomes & management in children with cardiac illness category compared to non-cardiac illness category: An analysis from the AHA Get With The Guidelines®-Resuscitation Registry. Resuscitation 205, December 2024.
Kernan KF, Adkins A, Jha RM, Kochanek PM, Carcillo JA, Berg RA, Wessel D, Pollack MM, Meert K, Hall M, Newth C, Lin JC, Doctor A, Cornell T, Harrison RE, Zuppa AF, Notterman DA, Aneja RK: Impact of ABCC8 and TRPM4 genetic variation in central nervous system dysfunction associated with pediatric sepsis. Shock 62(5): 688-687, November 2024.
Ross CE, Asad M, Kundun H, Gathers CL, Berg RA, Kleinman ME: Willingness to participate in an active exception from informed consent trial in the pediatric intensive care unit. Academic Emergency Medicine 31(11): 1188-1191, November 2024.
Yates AR, Hehir DA, Reeder RW, Berger JT, Fernandez R, Frazier AH, Graham K, McQuillen PS, Morgan RW, Nadkarni VM, Naim MY, Palmer CA, Wolfe HA, Berg RA, Sutton RM; ICU-RESUS; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network Investigator Groups: Resuscitation arterial waveform quantification and outcomes in pediatric bidirectional Glenn and Fontan patients. Pediatric Research Online ahead of print, September 2024.
Senthil K, Ranganathan A, Piel S, Hefti MM, Reeder RW, Kirschen MP, Starr J, Morton S, Gaudio HA, Slovis JC, Herrmann JR, Berg RA, Kilbaugh TJ, Morgan RW: Elevated serum neurologic biomarker profiles after cardiac arrest in a porcine model. Resuscitation Plus 19, September 2024.
Nishisaki A, Reeder RW, McGovern EL, Ahmed T, Bell MJ, Bishop R, Bochkoris M, Burns C, Carcillo JA, Carpenter TC, Diddle W, Federman M, Fink EL, Franzon D, Frazier AH, Friess SH, Graham K, Hall M, Hehir DA, Horvat CM, Huard LL, Maa T, Manga A, McQuillen P, Meert KL, Morgan RW, Mourani PM, Nadkarni VM, Naim MY, Notterman D, Palmer CA, Sapru A, Schneiter C, Sharron MP, Srivastava N, Viteri S, Wessel D, Wolfe HA, Yates AR, Zuppa AF, Sutton RM, Berg RA: Brief report: incidence and outcomes of pediatric tracheal intubation-associated cardiac arrests in the ICU-RESUS clinical trial. Crit Care 28(1): 286, August 2024.
Herrmann JR, Morgan RW, Berg RA: No to iNO? Not so fast. Resuscitation August 2024.
Aldewereld Z, Connolly B, Banks RK, Reeder R, Holubkov R, Berg RA, Wessel D, Pollack MM, Meert K, Hall M, Newth C, Lin JC, Doctor A, Cornell T, Harrison RE, Zuppa AF, Dean JM, Carcillo JA: Risk factors for prolonged infection and secondary infection in pediatric severe sepsis. Infection Online ahead of print, August 2024.