Dr. Stephen Berman, distinguished Colorado physician and advocate for kids’s well being, dies at 76

A serious determine in youngsters’s and public well being in Colorado and past has died.

Dr. Stephen Berman, one of many state’s most distinguished physicians, handed away from lymphoma on Tuesday. He was 76.

“Dr. Steve Berman was one of many pediatric giants of Youngsters’s Hospital Colorado and had an amazing affect on youngster well being throughout his profession,” stated Dr. David Brumbaugh, Chief Medical Officer at Youngsters’s Hospital Colorado. “Along with being one of the profitable youngster well being advocates in our hospital’s historical past, Dr. Berman was a gifted clinician with a particular curiosity in youngsters with complicated well being circumstances.”

Berman was a earlier president of the American Academy of Pediatrics and held an endowed chair in tutorial normal pediatrics at Youngsters’s Hospital Colorado.

He was a longtime professor within the CU College of Drugs. Berman carried out worldwide analysis initiatives and served as particular adviser to the World Well being Group and marketing consultant to the well being ministries of many countries across the globe, in keeping with his obituary.

Berman began the Youngsters’s Hospital program on epidermolysis bullosa, a bunch of uncommon illnesses that trigger the pores and skin to be fragile and blister simply. 

He helped lead legislative efforts to supply entry to well being look after Colorado youngsters. 

He was instrumental within the careers of many younger docs. 

“I’m one among a whole lot of pediatricians who contemplate Dr. Berman a mentor and can miss him tremendously,” stated Brumbaugh.

Berman even wrote a textbook referred to as Pediatric Resolution Making. He additionally printed greater than 100 peer-reviewed analysis articles and plenty of textbook chapters about frequent pediatric scientific issues.

He obtained quite a few recognitions and awards, together with the Torch of Liberty Award from the Colorado Anti-Defamation League in 2017. He served as a co-chair on the board of The Bell Coverage Middle, a Colorado nonprofit.

He graduated from Wesleyan College in Connecticut and later Temple College College of Drugs, then settled in Colorado the place he did his residency in pediatrics on the College of Colorado.

Berman is survived by his spouse Elaine, his son Seth (Lauren) and grandson Asher and his son Ben (Katherine) and his granddaughter Isa, and his brothers Jim (Nina) and Ed (Natalie). A service is scheduled for Sunday.