Dean physician Dean of Public Health
Born in Concord, New Hampshire, Berman completed his undergraduate education at Harvard College and graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1964. He completed his residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in infectious disease at Tufts Medical Center.
Contributions and Tufts The organization would grow to service 60,000 people by the mid-1980s. In 1986, Berman left Matthew Thornton and became the chief executive officer of Tufts Health Plan, which grew from 60,000 members to over a million members in his 17-year tenure. In 1986, he also joined Tufts University School of Medicine as a Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine.
From 2003 to 2008, he served as the Chair of the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, and eventually became the Dean of Public Health and Professional Degree Programs before being appointed vice dean of the medical school in 2008.
In December 2009, he was appointed dean ad interim for the School of Medicine and was formally appointed to the position of Dean in October 2011.
