Welcome to the Berman Center for Outcomes and Clinical Research

The Berman Center has been conducting first-class clinical trials research for more than 35 years. Founded in 1966 by Dr. Reuben Berman, a pioneer in the field of cardiovascular clinical research, its primary mission is to empower the medical community to offer better patient care through better research. Since its inception, the Berman Center has been a clinical site for at least 75 trials of varying size. For six of these trials, the Berman Center initiated the investigation, and was responsible for study design, implementation and analysis. The Berman Center is part of the Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation (MMRF), which oversees the research conducted at the Hennepin County Medical Center, an acute care research and teaching hospital.

News from the Women's Health Initiative
February 2006
Following an eating pattern lower in total fat did not significantly reduce the incidence of breast cancer, heart disease, or stroke, and did not reduce the risk of colorectal cancer in healthy postmenopausal women, according to the latest clinical trial results from the National Institutes of Health’s Women’s Health Initiative (WHI). Read the press release.

March 2005
Findings from the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study (WHI-OS) were published in the March 14, 2005 issue of JAMA's Archives of Internal Medicine. The article is entitled "Leukocyte Count as a Predictor of Cardiovascular Events and Mortality in Postmenopausal Women".

If you are a patient interested in becoming a research participant, please see our list of projects that are currently enrolling. If you are an investigator wishing to initiate a collaborative research effort, please see the list of services we provide and the other investigators we have served. If you are interested in learning how to conduct clinical research in complementary and alternative Medicine, please see our MNCAM site.