Alan R. Berger, M.D., has been named assistant dean of research for the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville. He will maintain his current roles as chairman of Jacksonville’s department of neurology and as director of the Shands Jacksonville Neuroscience Institute.
A graduate of the Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C., Berger completed an internship in internal medicine at Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center in New York, a residency in neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, N.Y., and a fellowship in electromyography and neuromuscular disease at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
His research interest is neuromuscular diseases, and he has received funding for his work from the National Institutes of Health. He also has participated in numerous multicenter clinical trials.
Berger joined the UF-Jacksonville faculty in 1995 as associate chairman of the department of neurology, was appointed director of the neuroscience institute in 2003 and was named the neurology department’s first chairman in 2006.