Dr. Berger graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Connecticut with a double major in biology and pathobiology and a minor in anthropology. He obtained his M.D. from New York Medical College with Alpha Omega Alpha honors and then completed a 4-year residency program in psychiatry at the New York Medical College Department of Psychiatry.

After residency, Dr. Berger did a fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine (formerly called Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry: psychiatry for patients with medical illnesses) at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. Now based in Tokyo, he had served on the Faculty of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry in New York as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. Dr. Berger's training includes over 5 years of receiving supervision as a psychotherapist.

Dr. Berger has had a private practice of psychiatry/psychotherapy since completing residency, in addition to university hospital based experience as an attending psychiatrist in the United States. Dr. Berger is Board Certified in Psychiatry from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Certificate No. 34086). This qualification can be verified at the web site of the American Board of Medical Specialties (you first have to register to use this service, then enter the name as: Douglas Berger in the search). Click here to see a cached version of Dr. Berger's Board Certification search results.

Japanese Medical and Psychiatric Training

Dr. Berger first came to Japan as a medical exchange student where he studied psychiatry and neurology at the Tokai University School of Medicine. He returned to Japan during his Psychiatric Residency to do research in psychiatry at the Tokai University Department of Psychiatry on a research fellowship from the Matsumae International Foundation.

After Residency, Dr. Berger again returned to Japan to do psychiatric research as a member of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at the University of Tokyo School of Medicine on a research grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health foreign-funded research program sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He then continued his psychiatric research pursuits at the Tokyo Institute of Psychiatry.

Dr. Berger's Japanese qualifications include a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo School of Medicine (Registration No.11965) received for psychiatric research done while at the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at Tokyo University. Dr. Berger has worked in Japan for many years as a psychotherapist and psychiatric researcher; he is also a native-level Japanese speaker and regularly conducts psychotherapy in Japanese for the Japanese community.

Dr. Berger's certificates, diplomas, and board-certifications are displayed in the therapy office.