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
Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Professor, Department of Surgery
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Professor, Statistics
Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery
Scientific Program:Cancer Control
Clinical Trials
Phase II Trial of Tipifarnib and Naxitamab for Relapsed/Refractory Neuroblastoma BCC022
Oncogenic Mutations/Gene Rearrangements in Patients with Advanced Adenocarcinoma Lung
Recent Publications
2024
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
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
2021
Chen, YC, Dinavahi, SS, Feng, Q, Gowda, R, Ramisetti, S, Xia, X, LaPenna, KB, Chirasani, VR, Cho, SH, Hafenstein, SL, Battu, MB, Berg, A, Sharma, AK, Kirchhausen, T, Dokholyan, NV, Amin, S, He, P & Robertson, GP 2021, 'Activating Sphingosine-1-phospahte signaling in endothelial cells increases myosin light chain phosphorylation to decrease endothelial permeability thereby inhibiting cancer metastasis', Cancer Letters, vol. 506, pp. 107-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canlet.2021.01.004
Farkas, GJ, Swartz, AM, Gorgey, AS, Berg, AS & Gater, DR 2022, 'Acute exercise improves glucose effectiveness but not insulin sensitivity in paraplegia', Disability and Rehabilitation, vol. 44, no. 17, pp. 4656-4662. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2021.1913517
Hawila, N & Berg, A 2021, 'Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on registered interventional clinical trials', Clinical and Translational Science, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 1147-1154. https://doi.org/10.1111/cts.13034
Berg, A 2021, 'Bayesian explorations with dice', Teaching Statistics, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 114-123. https://doi.org/10.1111/test.12271
Gater, DR, Farkas, GJ, Dolbow, DR, Berg, A & Gorgey, AS 2021, 'Body Composition and Metabolic Assessment after Motor Complete Spinal Cord Injury: Development of a Clinically Relevant Equation to Estimate Body Fat', Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 11-22. https://doi.org/10.46292/sci20-00079
Kline, BP, Yochum, GS, Brinton, DL, Schieffer, KM, Weaver, T, Harris, L, Deiling, S, Berg, AS & Koltun, WA 2021, 'COLQ and ARHGAP15 are associated with diverticular disease and are expressed in the colon', Journal of Surgical Research, vol. 267, pp. 397-403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2021.05.043
Lafferty, L, Wawrzyniak, J, Chambers, M, Pagliarulo, T, Berg, A, Hawila, N & Silvis, M 2022, 'Clinical Indoor Running Gait Analysis May Not Approximate Outdoor Running Gait Based on Novel Drone Technology', Sports Health, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 710-716. https://doi.org/10.1177/19417381211050931
Kline, BP, Weaver, T, Brinton, DL, Harris, L, Yochum, GS, Berg, AS & Koltun, WA 2021, 'Clinical and Genetic Factors Impact Time to Surgical Recurrence After Ileocolectomy for Crohn's Disease', Annals of surgery, vol. 274, no. 2, pp. 346-351. https://doi.org/10.1097/SLA.0000000000003660
Farkas, GJ, Gordon, PS, Trewick, N, Gorgey, AS, Dolbow, DR, Tiozzo, E, Berg, AS & Gater, DR 2021, 'Comparison of various indices in identifying insulin resistance and diabetes in chronic spinal cord injury', Journal of Clinical Medicine, vol. 10, no. 23, 5591. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10235591
Berg, A 2021, 'Concursos de modelos bayesianos para el salón de clases', Revista Colombiana de Estadistica, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 243-252. https://doi.org/10.15446/rce.v44n2.89102
Golla, U, Ehudin, MA, Annageldiyev, C, Zeng, Z, Bastihalli Tukaramrao, D, Tarren, A, Date, AA, Elcheva, I, Berg, A, Amin, S, Loughran, TP, Kester, M, Desai, D, Dovat, S, Claxton, D & Sharma, A 2021, 'Dj4 targets the rho-associated protein kinase pathway and attenuates disease progression in preclinical murine models of acute myeloid leukemia', Cancers, vol. 13, no. 19, 4889. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers13194889
Farkas, GJ, Gorgey, AS, Dolbow, DR, Berg, AS & Gater, DR 2021, 'Energy Expenditure, Cardiorespiratory Fitness, and Body Composition Following Arm Cycling or Functional Electrical Stimulation Exercises in Spinal Cord Injury: A 16-Week Randomized Controlled Trial', Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 121-134. https://doi.org/10.46292/sci20-00065
Batra, EK, Palusci, VJ & Berg, A 2022, 'Factors Associated with Child Maltreatment Fatality among Young Children with an Open Child Protective Services Case at Death', Child Abuse Review, vol. 31, no. 2, CAR2734. https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2734
Radico, J, Oser, T, Fausnight, T, Berg, A, Ouyang, A & Leong, SL 2021, 'Factors that Influence Work Family Conflict for Women Faculty [version 1]', MedEd Publish. https://doi.org/10.15694/mep.2021.000063.1
Veldheer, S, Scartozzi, C, Bordner, CR, Opara, C, Williams, B, Weaver, L, Rodriguez, D, Berg, A & Sciamanna, C 2021, 'Impact of a Prescription Produce Program on Diabetes and Cardiovascular Risk Outcomes', Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, vol. 53, no. 12, pp. 1008-1017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneb.2021.07.005
Raca, G, Abdel-Azim, H, Yue, F, Broach, J, Payne, JL, Reeves, ME, Gowda, C, Schramm, J, Desai, D, Dovat, E, Hu, T, Berg, AS, Bhojwani, D, Payne, KJ & Dovat, S 2021, 'Increased Incidence of IKZF1 deletions and IGH-CRLF2 translocations in B-ALL of Hispanic/Latino children—a novel health disparity', Leukemia, vol. 35, no. 8, pp. 2399-2402. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41375-021-01133-4
GWAS and Sequencing Consortium of Alcohol and Nicotine Use (GSCAN) 2021, 'Model-based assessment of replicability for genome-wide association meta-analysis', Nature communications, vol. 12, no. 1, 1964. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21226-z
Partin, M, Sanchez, A, Poulson, J, Berg, A, Parascando, J & Ramirez, SI 2021, 'Social inequities between prenatal patients in family medicine and obstetrics and gynecology with similar outcomes', Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 181-188. https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2021.01.200279
Berg, A & Hawila, N 2021, 'Some teaching resources using R with illustrative examples exploring COVID-19 data', Teaching Statistics, vol. 43, no. S1, pp. S98-S109. https://doi.org/10.1111/test.12258