Burton Berkson, MD 1938 - 2024 Hall of Fame 2019 Burton Berkson, MD, PhD, practices integrative medicine at the Integrative Medical Center of New Mexico and is an adjunct professor at Oklahoma State University College of Medicine, former adjunct professor New Mexico State University, and Clinical Assistant professor at Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine. He has also worked as a researcher and professor at several institutions including the Max Planck Institute, the University of Illinois, and Rutgers University. In addition to his MD training (PhD professor to MD program Autonomous University Mexico and Case Western Reserve Affiliated Hospitals), Dr. Berkson earned a Master of Science degree, and a PhD in the biological sciences from the University of Illinois, Urbana. For almost thirty years, Dr. Berkson has served as the CDC expert consultant on intravenous alpha lipoic acid and hepatotoxic poisoning and he is a former FDA principal investigator of lipoic acid. He is also the medical mycology expert for the State of New Mexico poison control centers. As one of the world’s leading experts on alpha lipoic acid, he is an active scientific writer, researcher, and speaker. In 2007 and 2012, Dr. Berkson was invited to lecture at the National Cancer Institute on his lipoic acid/low dose naltrexone therapies that correct mitochondrial dysfunction in various malignant diseases. Berkson has authored and co-authored many scientific papers and has written four books; The Alpha-Lipoic Acid Breakthrough (1998), All About the B Vitamins (1998), Syndrome X (2001, with co-authors) and A User’s Guide to the B Vitamins (2005, with Arthur Berkson). For more information, please visit: http://drberkson.com/ We welcome Burt Berkson into the Orthomolecular Medicine Hall of Fame.