Stanley A. Berger Montford G. Cook Endowed Chair in the College of Engineering, Department of Bioengineering Professor, Mechanical Engineering 6111 Etcheverry mailcode: MC 1740 (510) 642-5950 fax: (510) 642-5539 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it http://www.me.berkeley.edu/faculty/berger/index.html

Joined the UC Berkeley Faculty in 1961

Research Interests

Flow in normal and diseased arteries, in vessels with atheroseclerotic plaque or aneuryms, and interventions, such as stents; microcirculatory flow.  Flow of sickle-cell blood in the microcirculation.  Micro-biofluidics.

Education

1959    Ph.D., Brown University, Applied Mathematics

Major Awards

Fellow of:
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
The American Physical Society (APS)
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
The American Academy of Mechanics
The American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
2005    Elected to the Inaugural Class of Fellows, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
1997    Distinguished Graduate School Alumnus Award, Brown University
1964    Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award

Professional Experience

1961-1966     Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
1966-1970     Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
1970-present    Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
1998-present   Professor of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
2005-present    Montford G. Cook Professor in the College of Engineering

Selected Publications

    “A Phenomenological Model for Atherosclerotic Plaque Growth and Rupture” (with T.I. Zohdi and G.A. Holzapfel), J. Theoretical Biology, 227, 2004, 437-443.
    “A Turbulence Model for Pulsatile Arterial Flows” (with B.A. Younis), ASME J. Biomech. Eng., 126, 2004, 578-584.
    “Numerical Simulation of Magnetic Resonance Angiographies of an Anatomically Realistic Stenotic Carotid Bifurcation”  (with S. Lorthois, J. Stroud-Rossman, L.-D. Jou, and D. Saloner), Ann. Biomed. Eng., 33, No.3, 2005, 270-283
     "Vascular Fluid Dynamics”, in Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (online version), G. Wnek & G. Bowlin, Eds., Marcel Dekker, Taylor & Francis Encyclopedias, Mar., 2006, 14 pp.
     “A Theoretical Model of Sickle Cell Blood Flow in Skeletal Muscle Microcirculatory Networks” (with B.E. Carlson), 2007, 8th World Congress for Microcirculation, Milwaukee, WI, Aug. 15-19.