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Jules J. Berman, Ph.D., M.D.
President
Association for Pathology Informatics (2006)
email: jjberman@alum.mit.edu
 

Pathology informatics plays a crucial role in health care delivery. Every medical department and clinic depends on the secure, accurate and rapid communication of pathology data. There in an increasing expectation that pathology data must be organized in a manner that allows seamless integration with diverse types of medical data (e.g., the EMR, radiology, specialized laboratory reports, clinical trial databases, outcomes research data, epidemiologic studies, etc.). The hardware and software used in pathology departments must interoperate with a wide array of devices and databases to support coherent, safe patient care and to provide an infrastructure for all of the translational research efforts that are currently under development by medical centers. The Association for Pathology Informatics provides a collegial environment in which members may develop and share the expertise that supports these vital services.

President's Biography
Jules Berman received two bachelor's degrees from MIT (department of mathematics and department of earth and planetary sciences), his Ph.D. from Temple University, and his M.D. from the University of Miami. He received post-doctoral training in the Laboratory of Experimental Pathology in the National Cancer Institute, at NIH. He received residency training at the George Washington University Medical Center and is board certified in anatomic pathology and in cytopathology. He served as the chief of anatomic pathology at the VA Hospital in Baltimore, where he held adjunct appointments at Johns Hopkins Medical Center and the University of Maryland Medical Center. From 1998 to 2005, he was program director for Pathology Informatics in the Cancer Diagnosis Program at the National Cancer Institute. Jules Berman has first-authored more than 100 publications. He is now a free-lance author.

07/11/2006