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Steele Children's Research Center investigator Robert Berg, MD, UPH pediatric intensivist, Professor of Pediatrics, and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at The University of Arizona College of Medicine, was honored with the prestigious "2006 Resuscitation Science Symposium Lifetime Achievement Award for a Cardiac Resuscitation Scientist," by the American Heart Association. Dr. Berg was chosen out of approximately 350 nominees from around the world.
This award is presented annually to recognize an individual for outstanding contributions to the cardiac resuscitation science field. Dr. Berg is the fourth recipient of this award recognizing international leadership in cardiac arrest and CPR research. |
"Dr. Berg is a world-class researcher and physician, and this award acknowledges his contributions to improving cardiac resuscitation in both children and adults," says Fayez K. Ghishan, MD, director of the Steele Children's Research Center at the UA.
Dr. Berg's research focuses on pediatric and adult cardiac arrest, CPR, ventricular fibrillation and defibrillation, catecholamine pharmacology, and hemodynamics. Dr. Berg has published more than 150 research articles, books, and abstracts, and is acknowledged nationally and internationally as a leader in improving CPR methods. He has contributed to the development of "Continuous Chest Compression CPR" or "Cardio-cerebral Resuscitation," a simple exciting technique that has increased survival from sudden collapse cardiac arrest. Dr. Berg was the senior author on two landmark studies recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine. The first of these articles, "A comparison of high-dose and standard-dose epinephrine in children with cardiac arrest," established the appropriate dose of epinephrine for children in cardiac arrest. The other article, "Outcomes of Pediatric In-Hospital Ventricular Fibrillation," established that ventricular fibrillation occurs in more than 25 percent of in-hospital pediatric cardiac arrests (much more commonly than previously thought), and revealed a new paradigm for understanding and treating in-hospital pediatric ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest.
"This is a great honor," says Dr. Berg. "I'm proud to be in a community of healthcare professionals that is committed to improving the outcomes of individuals who have suffered from cardiac arrest."
Dr. Berg completed his medical training and residency at University of California, San Francisco and his fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at The Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.
