Anesthesiology
Our Staff
 Arthur Bert, MD
- Senior staff anesthesiologist, Rhode Island Hospital
Arthur Bert, MD, has served as director of cardiac anesthesia (1986-2002) at Rhode Island Hospital and as director of pediatric cardiac anesthesia (1996-2005) at Hasbro Children’s Hospital. Bert continues to pursue his interests in adult and pediatric cardiovascular and thoracic anesthesia as a senior staff anesthesiologist. He is a clinical professor of surgery (anesthesiology) at the the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University. He also holds the position of director of experimental cardiac surgery, anesthesiology and cardiac imaging at the cardiac surgery research laboratories of Children’s Mercy Hospital, in Kansas City, MO, where he is part of a funded research team that is growing tissue-engineered heart valves. He is a consultant anesthesiologist at Women & Infants Hospital for neonatal anesthesia.
Education
Bert graduated as president of Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He served as a resident in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and was awarded the Dr. Nathan Sidel Prize for outstanding achievement. He completed his anesthesia residency and an adult cardiac anesthesia fellowship at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, followed by a pediatric anesthesia fellowship at Children's Hospital Boston.
Board Certification
- Diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology (1985)
- Testamur of the National Board of Echocardiography in Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography (1998)
- Diplomate (2006) and re-certified in 2007
Awards
- Top Physicians, Rhode Island Monthly magazine (2000, 2002, 2004, 2006)
- Guide to America’s Top Physicians, Consumers’ Research Council of America, Washington, DC (2005, 2006)
- Teaching Recognition Award, Brown Medical School (2005)
- Dr. Charles A. Hill Award from the RI Medical Society (2006)
Interests
- Applications of transesophageal echocardiography to intraoperative patient management
- Techniques of reducing blood product transfusions during surgery
- Cerebral function monitoring during general anesthesia
- Research: Echocardiographic evaluation of tissue-engineered valve function
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