Brief Bio of the Founder and President of Hygeia Health Systems, Inc.

Dr. Berman is a 1970 graduate of New York Medical College. After his post-graduate training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital, Dr. Berman joined the clinical faculty at the Yale University School of Medicine. As Clinical Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Dr. Berman’s work focused on helping families who experienced the tragedy of Perinatal and Neonatal Loss. He developed a comprehensive teaching curriculum for medical students and house staff caring for these families, and founded the Hygeia Foundation, Inc., a unique, non-profit organization whose mission is to comfort those who grieve the loss of a pregnancy or newborn child and to address disparities in access to healthcare services for medically and economically underserved families. He is a recipient of the Association of Professors in Gynecology and Obstetrics Teaching Award, the C. Lee Buxton Teaching Award, and has been interviewed about his work by the New York Times, the Student British Medical Journal, the CBS Early Show, the NBC Today Show and most recently by Yahoo Health.

Dr. Berman joined the faculty at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center in 2012 as the Medical Director of Labor and Delivery and Associate Chairman for Quality and Patient Safety. In this role, Dr. Berman instituted a Laborist Program which has grown to 4 full time, Board Certified Laborists, working as a team to provide standardized, evidenced-based, patient centric care to all patients on the labor floor while enhancing the quality, safety and the patient experience. Dr. Berman directs all the Quality and Safety initiatives in the Department and works in concert with the Mount Sinai Health System Institutional QI and Patient Safety Teams.

Dr. Berman is the author of the book, Parenthood Lost: Healing the Pain after Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Infant Death and many poems and essays documenting the human condition and how physicians and healthcare providers affect and are affected by their patient’s experiences. His most recent manuscript is, When Love Impales the Heart, A Doctors Poems of Eulogy and Celebration. He is a charter member of the International Stillbirth Alliance, serving for several years on their Scientific Advisory Board.

In June, 2014, Dr. Berman received a Master’s Degree in Biomedical Informatics at the Oregon Health and Science University, with a major focus on personal health records and disparities in access to health-care information technologies (“Digital Divide”). As president and founder of Hygeia Health Systems, Inc., he is committed to developing and disseminating internet-based programs to optimize the healthcare experience of patients and providers.
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