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Philip A. Berger was a renowned Stanford psychiatrist with impeccable credentials who resigned while under investigation.

Accomplishments

Education

• Gratuated Phi Beta Kappa in astrophysics from Dartmouth College in 1965
• Completed basic medical science magna cum laude from Dartmouth Medical School
• Received MD degree cum laude from Harvard Medical School in 1969

Professional work

• Arrived at Stanford in 1970, and completed residency in the Department of Psychiatry
• Served as chief resident, then associate professor, then assistant professor at Stanford
• Also appointed as director of the Veterans Administration (VA)-Stanford Mental Health Clinical Research Center at the VA hospital in Palo Alto in 1973
• Also appointed as director of the VA-Schizophrenia Biological Research Center in 1981
• Became the first Kenneth T. Norris Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine in 1984
• Removed or resigned from all VA and Stanford positions 1986-1987

Allogations

Improper relationship with a patient

Fraud cases in the biomedical sciences

Article 1 of 4, Article ID: 8804290337 Published on October 26, 1988, San Jose Mercury News (CA)

STANFORD DATA QUESTIONED UNIVERSITY ORDERS CHANGES IN 11 SCIENTIFIC PAPERS

In a rare move, Stanford University has ordered 11 scientific papers published by its medical school faculty to be clarified, corrected or withdrawn after an internal investigation found researchers had relied on incorrect data.

All of the papers were written under the direction of Dr. Philip A. Berger, a prominent psychiatrist who resigned from Stanford amid controversy and secrecy in May 1987.

In a report released late Tuesday, university Provost James Rosse called the incident

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Article 2 of 4, Article ID: 8702140665 Published on June 7, 1987, San Jose Mercury News (CA)

DOCTOR'S COLLEAGUES QUESTION RELATIONSHIP WITH DONOR

Psychiatrists who specialize in medical ethics say doctors and patients should avoid relationships similar to that of Dr. Philip A. Berger and Kenneth T. Norris Jr., the Southern California philanthropist who donated $3 million to Berger's Stanford research program while he was undergoing psychiatric treatment with Berger.

The physicians also said they personally would not accept large, monetary gifts from psychiatric patients dependent on their care, for fear of exploiting

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Article 3 of 4, Article ID: 8702140716 Published on June 7, 1987, San Jose Mercury News (CA)

HOW PROFESSOR FELL FROM GRACE STANFORD CAREER ENDED AMID FEDERAL PROBE, ETHICAL QUESTIONS

When a renowned Stanford psychiatrist with impeccable credentials resigned last month, Stanford officials did not reveal that he had falsified medical records and was the subject of a federal investigation.

Stanford and federal government officials have shrouded in secrecy the circumstances surrounding Dr. Philip A. Berger's resignation. They said only that the university returned about $129,000 after an audit of a $5 million federal research grant for work at the Veterans

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Article 4 of 4, Article ID: 8702100938 Published on May 23, 1987, San Jose Mercury News (CA)

STANFORD RESEARCHER RESIGNS SCHOOL WILL RETURN QUESTIONED GRANT MONEY TO FEDERAL AGENCY

Dr. Philip A. Berger, a renowned Stanford psychiatric professor, resigned Friday as the university announced it had returned more than $128,000 of his federal research grants that an internal audit could not account for.

Part of the reimbursement was for salary paid to Berger's wife, Meredith, according to the acting coordinator of Berger's 10-year clinic research center at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital.

University officials received the

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Stanford Goofs on 11 Scientific Papers

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Science Magazine

Philip A. Berger, M.D., is the Kenneth T. Norris, Jr. Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine and Director of the Norris Mental Health Clinical Research Center. His major research interests include the neurobiology and neurochemistry of mental illness about which he has written numerous scientific papers. In addition, he is co-editor of several books on psychopharmacology, psychiatry, and behavioral neurochemistry. Healing Brain Seminar: February 1986

KENNETH L. DAVIS; PHILIP A. BERGER Letters

Serum phosphate and anxiety in major depression

Berger is an associate editor of Schizophrenia Bulletin

Philip A. Berger, M.D., is Kenneth T. Norris Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine

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