Jonathan Bergman, MD, MPH.

You have accessUrology PracticeReviewer of the Month1 Sep 2023Jonathan Bergman, MD, MPH Jonathan Bergman Jonathan BergmanJonathan Bergman University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California More articles by this author View All Author Informationhttps://doi.org/10.1097/UPJ.0000000000000422AboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints ShareFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail Jonathan Bergman, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Urology and Family Medicine at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He also serves as Associate Program Director of the UCLA Urology Training Program and practices clinically at the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration and Olive View–UCLA County Hospital. He serves as Chief of Ethics at the Veterans Administration and Chair of the Urology–Primary Care Workgroup at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, and is an active teacher and mentor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr Bergman attended Yale University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude with a degree in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. He attended UCLA Medical School and graduated as an Alpha Omega Alpha member in 2005. He completed UCLA Urology residency in 2011 and a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholarship in 2013. He holds the Mark S. Litwin, MD, Endowed Chair in Mentorship. What is your academic background/research training? I’ve been incredibly fortunate to train under inspirational mentors from my formative years at Yale to my subsequent time at UCLA, where I did the rest of my training. Dr Litwin, who has been my primary mentor from residency to fellowship and throughout my career as a faculty member, challenges us to try to fix problems and make as big an impact as possible on as many people as possible. This led me to pursue interventions to improve population health for underserved communities and to integrate palliative care into urology. Why do you review for UPJ? Urology Practice® is an incredible forum to highlight leaders in our field and, even more importantly, novel ways we can improve the health of urology patients and populations. As a reviewer, I am always impressed by the sense of mission from the community of urology researchers working to improve urological care. After reading every issue of Urology Practice®, I learn ways to be a better clinician and to serve my population of patients. In your opinion, what makes research novel? I think research is novel if it is policy-relevant and can change clinical practice. Dr Litwin often reminds me that we are past the point of needing to define problems, and in an era of needing to figure out how to fix them. What subject matter or research question should be studied more thoroughly? One understudied discipline in surgery is best practices for teaching in the operating room. We often hire faculty based on clinical and research accomplishments and assume they can figure out how to teach, but it is a skill that needs to be nurtured and developed, and each of us can improve. The operating room is a unique setting, and teaching in the operating room is poorly understood. © 2023 by American Urological Association Education and Research, Inc.FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 10Issue 5September 2023Page: 458-458 Advertisement Copyright & Permissions© 2023 by American Urological Association Education and Research, Inc.Metrics Author Information Jonathan Bergman University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California More articles by this author Expand All Advertisement Advertisement PDF downloadLoading ...