Dr. Ira Lawrence Berger MD
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
1201 Seven Locks Rd Suite 111 Potomac MD, 20854Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Ira Berger practices Pulmonology in Potomac, MD. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Berger manages patients who need life support and mechanical ventilation, and is specially trained in diseases and conditions of the chest, particularly pneumonia, asthma, tuberculosis, emphysema, and complicated chest infections.
Education and Training
State University of New York Downstate College of Medicine MD
SUNY Downstate Medical Center College Of Medicine 1987
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine 1987
Tufts University School of Medicine 1983
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The relationship of emotional adjustment and intellectual capacity to academic achievement of college students.
- Some reflections on group psychotherapy, a growing force in psychiatry.
- PSYCHIATRY AND MEDICAL PRACTICE: DISCUSSION OF AN APPROACH TO TEACHING PSYCHIATRY TO PRACTICING PHYSICIANS.
- Psychopathologic attitudes of frustrated previously employed mothers toward their offspring.
- Resistances to the learning process in group dynamics programs.
- Group psychotherapy training institutes: group process, therapy, or resistance to learning?
- Presidential address: group psychotherapy today--ideologies and issues.
- The psychiatrists' influence on other physicians.
Treatments
- Cataracts
- Prostate Cancer
- Urinary Incontinence
- High Cholesterol
- Sleep Apnea
- Pain
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea (osa)
- Vascular Disease
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