Dr. Berry is the Mylavarapu Rogers Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford University. He trained in General Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and in Thoracic Surgery at Duke University, and has a Masters of Health Sciences in Clinical Research from Duke University. His clinical and research activities focus on optimizing short-term and long-term outcomes of patients with thoracic surgical conditions. He has more than 150 peer-reviewed publications, most of which are related to both the use of minimally invasive thoracic surgical techniques as well as evaluating outcomes after treatment of thoracic malignancies. His clinical practice and his research both focus on choosing the most appropriate treatment and approach for patients based on the individual characteristics of the patient and their disease process.