Brian Berman
{{short description|American acupuncture researcher}}
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University of California, Los Angeles
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Brian M. Berman is a tenured professor of family medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Education
Berman received his medical degree from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He completed his residencies at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and at the University of California, Los Angeles.{{cite web | url=http://findadoctor.umm.edu/Details/24026 | title=Brian M. Berman, MD | work=University of Maryland | accessdate=5 January 2015}}
Career
Berman was appointed an assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1991. He was appointed an associate professor there in 1997 and a full professor in 2000, and was awarded tenure in 2003. He also founded the University of Maryland's Center for Integrative Medicine in 1991,{{cite web | url=http://www.cleveland.edu/hit/janfeb-2013-vol-6-no-1/integrative-medicine-research-interview-brian-berman-md/ | title=Interview with Brian Berman, MD | work=Cleveland Chiropractic College | date=January 2013 | accessdate=5 January 2015 | author=Redwood, Daniel | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://archive.today/20150106050807/http://www.cleveland.edu/hit/janfeb-2013-vol-6-no-1/integrative-medicine-research-interview-brian-berman-md/ | archivedate=6 January 2015 }} where he is professor emeritus now.{{cite web | url=https://tiih.org/who/people/staff/brian-berman/ | title=Brian Berman, MD | work=Institute for Integrative Health | accessdate=25 October 2021 }} He founded the Institute for Integrative Health in 2007, now known as Nova Institute for Health.
Research
Berman is known for his research into acupuncture.{{cite web | url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/acupuncture-helps-ease-arthritis/ | title=Acupuncture Helps Ease Arthritis | work=CBS News | date=20 December 2004 | accessdate=5 January 2015}}{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52592-2000Dec26_2.html | title=Study Aims to Pinpoint How Acupuncture Works | newspaper=Washington Post | date=27 December 2000 | accessdate=5 January 2015 | author=Okie, Susan}}{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-apr-04-he-acupuncture4-story.html | title=Acupuncture gains respect | work=Los Angeles Times | date=4 April 2005 | access-date=5 January 2015 | author=Foreman, Judy}} In 2010, Berman published a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine which recommended the use of acupuncture for lower back pain.{{cite journal|last1=Berman|first1=Brian M.|last2=Langevin|first2=Helene M.|last3=Witt|first3=Claudia M.|last4=Dubner|first4=Ronald|title=Acupuncture for Chronic Low Back Pain|journal=New England Journal of Medicine|date=29 July 2010|volume=363|issue=5|pages=454–461|doi=10.1056/NEJMct0806114|pmid=20818865}} The article was criticized by Steven Salzberg in Forbes.{{cite web | url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/sciencebiz/2010/08/25/acupuncture-infiltrates-the-university-of-maryland-and-nejm/ | title=Acupuncture Infiltrates the University of Maryland and NEJM | work=Forbes | date=25 August 2010 | accessdate=18 February 2015 | author=Salzberg, Steven}}
Awards and honors
Berman was named a "top doctor" in a 2013 survey of peers published in Baltimore,{{cite web | url=http://www.baltimoremagazine.net/2013/12/top-doctors-2013-elective-cosmetic-specialties | title=Elective/Cosmetic Specialties | work=Baltimore Magazine | date=November 2013 | accessdate=10 January 2015}} and the Center for Integrative Medicine was named a Research Center for Excellence by the National Institutes of Health under Berman's direction.{{cite web | url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/07/the-triumph-of-new-age-medicine/308554/ | title=The Triumph of New-Age Medicine | work=The Atlantic | date=7 June 2011 | accessdate=10 January 2015 | author=Freedman, David H.}}
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Category:University of Maryland, Baltimore faculty
Category:American primary care physicians
Category:University of Maryland School of Medicine faculty
Category:Physicians from Baltimore
Category:Alumni of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
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