Dr. Burt Berkson practices integrative medicine in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and is an adjunct professor at New Mexico State University (Mycology) and Oklahoma State University College of Medicine..
He is the expert consultant on alpha-lipoic acid (thioctic acid) and acute hepatic necrosis and mushroom poisoning at the Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta and is the medical mycology consultant at the Poison Control Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
He has worked as a researcher and professor at several institutions, including: the Max Planck Institute(Heidelberg), the University of Illinois (Urbana), New Mexico State University, Oklahoma State University College of Medicine, Chicago State University, and Rutgers University, and as a member of the National Institutes of Health endocrinology research group.
