Biography
Alan Berman, M.D.
Saddleback Family and Urgent Care Medical Group
Alan Berman, M.D.

      Dr. Berman graduated from New York University and the University of Miami
Medical School.  He did an internship at New York University Bellevue Medical
Center in 1968.  After a residency at Boston University Hospital and Manhattan’s
prestigious Lenox Hill Hospital he began work as an Emergency Room Physician
and opened a private Family Practice in New York.  In 1975 Dr. Berman moved to
California.  He has practiced Emergency Room Medicine as a Board Certified
Emergency Physician and private Family Practice as a Fellow of the American
Board of Family Practice.  In 1984 Dr. Berman became the originating director of
Saddleback Family and Urgent Care Medical Group at Lake Forest and has
since happily served in that capacity.

       He enjoys the mix of chronic and acute problems that the Urgent Care
presents and especially the opportunity to develop mutually satisfying long term
relationships with his patients.

       Dr. Berman speaks some medical Spanish and is ACLS certified.  He is
married to a photographer/artist and has one daughter who he is proud to have
as a colleague in the Urgent Care.  He enjoys reading, traveling and the practice
and history of fine art.