TABLE LODGE MEETING - TUESDAY MARCH 20
Remember:
- Cheese, Wine & Chaverschaft -from 6pm
- Lodge meeting - 7 pm
- Report Back - HOD International Biennial Meeting in Atlanta. Bros Romick and Kahn
- Dinner is Served
Distinguished Speaker:
Martin R. Berk, MD, FCCP, FACC, FASE, FAHA
We are honored to have our own Brother Dr. Martin Berk lead an interactive discussion in open forum centering on topics covering men’s overall heart health, a subject of vital importance to us all, one way or the other.
A native of South Africa, Dr. Martin Berk Graduated from the prestigious University of the Witwatersrand Medical School in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1977. He received his training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology in South Africa under Dr. John Barlow, considered one of the world's top heart experts, specializing in Internal Medicine in 1983. In 1986 he was awarded a Masters of Medicine, in the same year immigrating to the USA and completing a Research and Clinical Cardiology Fellowship under Dr. Anthony Demaria at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Successfully completing all his USA specialty board qualifying requirements in Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Dr Berk joined the faculty in 1988 as Director of the Heart Failure Program, lead an active research program and participated in starting a heart transplant program.
In 1992, Dr. Berk moved to Dallas, Texas to join Cardiology and Interventional Vascular Associates. He also established the Cardiovascular Research Institute of Dallas, which he still directs today. He has completed and participated as a principal investigator in multiple cardiology clinical trials and has headed the echocardiography program and director of the heart failure program at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas. Currently, Dr. Berk is chairman of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Texas Healthcare Resources which includes all Presbyterian Hospitals and Harris Methodist hospitals in North Texas.
He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiology, echocardiography, advanced heart failure and transplantation.
In addition to his busy general cardiology private practice, Dr Berk also somehow finds the time to participate as the principal investigator in over 100 cardiology trials dealing with heart failure, hypertension, atrial fibrillation, coronary artery disease and diabetes.
Dr Berk has presenting over 60 publications at important cardiology congresses and is the author of 34 manuscripts which have fundamentally changed the treatment of heart disease over the past 30 years.
Dr. Berk is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the American College of Chest physicians, and the American Society of Echocardiography. Dr. Berk still continues his teaching and lectures extensively on heart failure, anticoagulation, newer cholesterol lowering drugs and preventative cardiology.
