Albert Berg (surgeon)

Albert Ashton Berg (August 10, 1872 in New York – July 1, 1950[1][2]) was an American surgeon of Hungarian heritage.

[1][3] Berg trained at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan from 1894 to 1896, before being appointed to its staff as an adjunct surgeon in 1899.

[2] At the behest of his colleague Richard Lewisohn, Berg performed the first subtotal gastric resection for peptic ulcer in the United States.

[2] Berg, who was "an indefatigable and extremely facile surgeon", along with his brother Henry (1858 – 1938), donated a collection of over 35,000 printed works on American and English literature to the New York Public Library (the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature).

[1] At the time of his death in 1950, following kidney surgery,[3] Berg was a consulting surgeon at a number of other hospitals.