Justin Berger, MD, PhD is an attending physician in the Division of Cardiology on the Pediatric Heart Failure and Transplantation service. His research and clinical interests focus on the development of pediatric heart failure and underlying metabolic and genetic causes. Dr. Berger sees infants, children and young adults for general pediatric cardiology as well as heart failure, cardiomyopathy and heart transplant.

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Dr. Berger is a pediatric physician-scientist with a research focus on how metabolic dysregulation drives cardiac dysfunction. He has particular interest in cardiomyocyte lipid homeostasis relevant to heart failure with emphasis on obesity-driven diastolic heart failure, a common entity in many forms of pediatric heart failure. This work combines basic science models with translational approaches, and has been supported by multiple intramural and NIH grants. Dr. Berger has also published on genetic causes of pediatric cardiomyopathy, risk factors for dyslipidemia in congenital heart disease, and appropriate lipid screening in these populations.