{"id":85623,"date":"2020-06-18T13:43:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T17:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/?page_id=85623"},"modified":"2024-10-15T10:19:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T14:19:45","slug":"steven-berk-md","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/offices-services\/alumni\/spotlight\/steven-berk-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Berk, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Class Year:<\/strong>\u00a01975<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2020\/05\/berk__steven-424x636.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"247\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Specialties<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Infectious Diseases \/ Geriatric<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Current practice<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dean Texas Tech School of Medicine \/ Executive Vice President and Provost Medicine<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you remember what motivated you to make your first gift to BUSM?<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gratitude for professors, particularly clinicians at Boston City Hospital<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do you continue to give to BUSM?<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I give to BUSM to support medical students and because of my appreciation of their commitment to the community. Thank you to Dr. Antman for her outstanding leadership and long-standing commitment to the Chobanian &#038; Avedisian School of Medicine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What would you tell current students about the importance of giving back to BUSM?<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scholarship contributions will guarantee the best students will be attracted to BUSM in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fond memory of BUSM:<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As an infectious disease fellow, being stranded in Maxwell Finland laboratory with Maxwell Finland during the blizzard of \u201878.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite professor or course at BUSM:<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Navaho Indian Reservation elective in Senior year; the best active professor was Jerry Klein , MD.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class Year:\u00a01975 Specialties Infectious Diseases \/ Geriatric Current practice Dean Texas Tech School of Medicine \/ Executive Vice President and Provost Medicine Do you remember what motivated you to make your first gift to BUSM? Gratitude for professors, particularly clinicians at Boston City Hospital Why do you continue to give to BUSM? I give to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15800,"featured_media":0,"parent":93581,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"bu-publication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15800"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107815,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85623\/revisions\/107815"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=85623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}