Robert Berger

Robert Berger is a retired cardiothoracic surgeon who is currently Director of Clinical Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. Previously he was Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Professor of Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine. He has published over 250 articles in scholarly medical texts and was the first in the world to implant a partial artificial heart in a patient who survived. He is married and is the father of two daughters.