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Steven Lee Berk, M.D. is Vice President for Medical Affairs, and Dean, School of Medicine at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. Dr. Berk held the positions of Regional Dean, Professor of Medicine, and Mirick-Myers Endowed Chair in Geriatric Medicine of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine in Amarillo from 1999-2006. He graduated from Boston University School of Medicine and completed his internal medicine residency and infectious disease fellowship at Boston City Hospital. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease with a certificate of added qualification in Geriatrics. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha and Sigma Xi.
Dr. Berk moved to Johnson City, Tennessee, in 1979 to join the new medical school at East Tennessee State University. There, he was appointed as Chief of Infectious Disease in 1982, Professor of Medicine in 1986, Chairman of the Department of Medicine in 1988, a position he occupied for 11 years. He is the author or co-author of over 120 peer review publications and four textbooks. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the Infectious Disease Society of America, the American Geriatric Society, and the American College of Chest Physicians. He has served on the NIH Special Advisory Panel on the Evaluation of Vaccines against Infections in the Elderly, on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Geriatric Society and as a reviewer for most internal medicine and infectious disease journals. Dr. Berk's teaching ability was well recognized at ETSU where he received the medical school’s Teacher of the Year award ten times and the University’s Distinguished Faculty Award. The American College of Physicians bestowed the title of Laureate in Medicine on Dr. Berk in 1998, and he was elected to the National Board of Alpha Omega Alpha in 1999. Dr. Berk was named the Mirick-Myers Endowed Chair in Geriatric Medicine at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine in 2001 and received the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Distinguished Service Award in 2003.
He is married to Shirley, and they have two sons, Jeremy and Justin.
Steven L. Berk, M.D.
Dean, School of Medicine
(806) 743-3000
Steven.Berk@ttuhsc.edu
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