Arthur Berg, PhD - Penn State Cancer Institute
Researcher Profile
Arthur Berg, PhD
Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Professor, Department of Surgery
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Professor, Statistics
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Professor, Department of Surgery
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Professor, Statistics
Scientific Program:Cancer Control
Clinical Trials
Phase II Trial of Tipifarnib and Naxitamab for Relapsed/Refractory Neuroblastoma BCC022
Recent Publications
2026
Farkas, GJ, Cunningham, PM, Berg, AS, Jimsheleishvili, G, Mendez, AJ, Gater, DR, Nash, MS & Rolls, BJ 2026, 'Gastrointestinal dysmotility and impaired gut peptide-satiety coupling in men with spinal cord injury', Physiology and Behavior, vol. 305, 115207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2025.115207
2025
Gill, SA, Ho, D, Veldheer, S, Berg, A, Morgis, R, Curry, W & Rabago, D 2025, 'Barriers and Facilitators to Topical Fluoride Varnish Application in Well-Child Visits', JDR Clinical and Translational Research, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 46S-53S. https://doi.org/10.1177/23800844251328646
Farkas, GJ, Caldera, LJ, Hodgkiss, DD, Mitchell, JR, Pelaez, TF, Cusnier, MA, Cole, AJ, Daniel, SG, Farrow, MT, Gee, CM, Kincaid-Sharp, EA, Green Logan, AM, McMillan, DW, Nightingale, TE, Perdue, B, Portes, P, Walson, FT, Volmrich, AM, Reynolds, JM, Nash, MS, Gater, DR & Berg, AS 2025, 'Cardiometabolic Risk in Chronic Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis and Temporal and Geographical Trends', Journal of Clinical Medicine, vol. 14, no. 9, 2872. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14092872
Donato, ZJ, Levy, AS, Sneij, A, Lavela, SL, Berg, AS, Shapiro, LT & Farkas, GJ 2025, 'Grocery Shopping and Eating Behaviors Differ Between Persons With and Without a Spinal Cord Injury', Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 66-76. https://doi.org/10.46292/sci24-00028
2024
Allen, EC, Goldstein, E, Lennon, RP, Berg, A, Regner, CJ, Downs, DS, Neiderhiser, JM, Das Eiden, R & Zgierska, AE 2024, 'COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Perceived Loneliness as a Potential Risk Factor for Worse Outcomes Among People Who are Pregnant or Postpartum', Wisconsin Medical Journal, vol. 123, no. 6, pp. 515-520.
Berg, A 2024, 'Causal inference from high-dimensional static data in soil microbiota networks: Comment on “Topological change of soil microbiota networks for forest resilience under global warming” by Gong et al.', Physics of Life Reviews, vol. 51, pp. 281-282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2024.10.012
McGuire, D, Markus, H, Yang, L, Xu, J, Montgomery, A, Berg, A, Li, Q, Carrel, L, Liu, DJ & Jiang, B 2024, 'Dissecting heritability, environmental risk, and air pollution causal effects using > 50 million individuals in MarketScan', Nature communications, vol. 15, no. 1, 5357. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-49566-6
Farkas, GJ, Cunningham, PM, Sneij, AM, Hayes, JE, Nash, MS, Berg, AS, Gater, DR & Rolls, BJ 2024, 'Reasons for meal termination, eating frequency, and typical meal context differ between persons with and without a spinal cord injury', Appetite, vol. 192, 107110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.107110
Onks, C, Weaver, L, Latorre, J, Silvis, M, Berg, A, Phillips, S, Loeffert, J, French, C & Armstrong, A 2024, 'The most effective corticosteroid dose in the treatment of glenohumeral osteoarthritis: Feasibility pilot and protocol for double blinded randomized controlled trial', Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open, vol. 6, no. 3, 100484. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocarto.2024.100484
Vangala, V, Chen, YC, Dinavahi, SS, Gowda, K, Lone, NA, Herlyn, M, Drabick, J, Helm, K, Zhu, J, Neves, RI, Sharma, AK, Berg, A, Archetti, M, Amin, S, Schell, TD & Robertson, GP 2024, 'Tumor Heterogeneity Shapes Survival Dynamics in Drug-Treated Cells, Revealing Size-Drifting Subpopulations', ACS Pharmacology and Translational Science, vol. 7, no. 11, pp. 3573-3584. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsptsci.4c00453
Healy, ME, Messer, LH, Stasinopoulos, MG, Brewer, SE, Berg, A & Oser, TK 2024, 'Understanding patient and health care provider perceptions of barriers and facilitators to diabetes care in immigrant and refugee populations', Discover public health, vol. 21, no. 1, 88. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12982-024-00208-8
2023
Darby, A, Parascando, JA, Lipinski, M, Lipinski, C, Mendez-Miller, M, Berg, A, Rabago, D & Oser, TK 2023, 'Awareness and interest in osteopathic manipulative treatment in allopathic medical students', Journal of Osteopathic Medicine, vol. 123, no. 8, pp. 379-384. https://doi.org/10.1515/jom-2022-0232
Tom, CM, Mankarious, MM, Jeganathan, NA, Deutsch, M, Koltun, WA, Berg, AS & Scow, JS 2023, 'Characteristics and Outcomes of Right- Versus Left-Sided Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer', Diseases of the colon and rectum, vol. 66, no. 4, pp. 498-510. https://doi.org/10.1097/DCR.0000000000002273
Karpa, K, Ward, J, Stegman, M, Berg, A & Leong, SL 2023, 'IPEx: A gamification tool for learner application of pharmacologic principles of opioid use, misuse, and addiction', Pharmacology Research and Perspectives, vol. 11, no. 5, e01141. https://doi.org/10.1002/prp2.1141
Larsen, M, He, F, Kawasawa, YI, Berg, A, Vgontzas, AN, Liao, D, Bixler, EO & Fernandez-Mendoza, J 2023, 'Objective and subjective measures of sleep initiation are differentially associated with DNA methylation in adolescents', Clinical Epigenetics, vol. 15, no. 1, 136. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13148-023-01553-2
Mankarious, MM, Hughes, AJ, Berg, AS, Scow, JS, Jeganathan, AN, Kulaylat, AS & Deutsch, MJ 2023, 'Survival outcomes of anal adenocarcinoma versus rectal adenocarcinoma: A retrospective cohort study', Indian Journal of Gastroenterology, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 694-700. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12664-023-01394-0
Walser, SA, Costigan, H, Stuckey, HL, Berg, A & Stephens, MB 2023, 'The Opaque Language of Sexuality: Medical Students’ and Providers’ Beliefs About Virginity', Archives of Sexual Behavior, vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 2619-2638. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-023-02578-7
Farkas, GJ, Berg, AS, Sneij, A, Dolbow, DR & Gorgey, AS 2024, 'The comparison of total energy and protein intake relative to estimated requirements in chronic spinal cord injury', British Journal of Nutrition, vol. 131, no. 3, pp. 489-499. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114523002088
Wang, H, Berger, KN, Miller, EL, Fu, W, Broglie, L, Goldman, FD, Konig, H, Lim, SJ, Berg, AS, Talano, JA, Comito, MA, Farag, SS & Pu, JJ 2023, 'The impacts of total body irradiation on umbilical cord blood hematopoietic stem cell transplantation', Therapeutic Advances in Hematology, vol. 14. https://doi.org/10.1177/20406207231170708
Satriale, F, Garman, JC, Roy, S, Parascando, J, Berg, A & Oser, T 2023, 'Understanding Nutritional Knowledge and Experiences in Families With a Child Newly Diagnosed With Type 1 Diabetes', Diabetes Spectrum, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 52-58. https://doi.org/10.2337/ds22-0009
2022
Riley, TD, Radico, JA, Parascando, J, Berg, A & Oser, TK 2022, 'Challenges in Effective Faculty and Provider Recognition to Enhance Engagement', Family medicine, vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 461-465. https://doi.org/10.22454/FamMed.2022.324428
Schlegel, D, Heron, C, Berg, A, Parascando, J & Silvis, M 2022, 'Diagnoses per Encounter by Telephone, Televideo, and In-Office Visits', Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 491-496. https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2022.03.210451
Hawila, N & Berg, A 2023, 'Exact-corrected confidence interval for risk difference in noninferiority binomial trials', Biometrics, vol. 79, no. 2, pp. 1133-1144. https://doi.org/10.1111/biom.13688
Dolbow, DR, Farkas, GJ, Berg, AS, Welsch, MA, Gorgey, AS & Gater, DR 2022, 'Fat to lean mass ratio in spinal cord injury: Possible interplay of components of body composition that may instigate systemic inflammation and metabolic syndrome', Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, vol. 45, no. 6, pp. 833-839. https://doi.org/10.1080/10790268.2022.2111900
Dinavahi, SS, Chen, YC, Gowda, R, Dhanyamraju, PK, Punnath, K, Desai, D, Berg, A, Kimball, SR, Amin, S, Yang, JM & Robertson, GP 2022, 'Targeting Protein Translation in Melanoma by Inhibiting EEF-2 Kinase Regulates Cholesterol Metabolism though SREBP2 to Inhibit Tumour Development', International journal of molecular sciences, vol. 23, no. 7, 3481. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23073481
Dinavahi, SS, Chen, YC, Punnath, K, Berg, A, Herlyn, M, Foroutan, M, Huntington, ND & Robertson, GP 2022, 'Targeting WEE1/AKT Restores p53-Dependent Natural Killer–Cell Activation to Induce Immune Checkpoint Blockade Responses in “Cold” Melanoma', Cancer Immunology Research, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 757-769. https://doi.org/10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-21-0587