Dr. Stephen A. Berger graduated from New York Medical College in 1967 and he completed his Internal Medicine training there.  Following service in the U.S. Navy, he completed fellowships in Infectious Diseases at Montefiore Hospital-Einstein in New York, The New York V.A. Hospital and Tufts New England Medical Center.   He subsequently served as a Clinical Microbiology Fellow at Montefiore Hospital, New York; and in MPH-Operational Methods Fellow for the World Health Organization in Brussels, Belgium.  He is currently Director of Clinical Microbiology and Geographic Medicine at the Tel Aviv Medical Center.  Dr Berger has published 8 books and 190 journal articles in the field of Infectious Diseases, and is co-founder and Scientific Advisor for GIDEON www.GideonOnline.com, an on-line informatics and decision support system.