Jarett Berry, M.D.
Professor

Jarett D. Berry, M.D., is a Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He is a Dedman Family Scholar in Clinical Care.

Dr. Berry is a general cardiologist whose main clinical and research focus is primary prevention.

Dr. Berry earned his medical degree and completed a residency in internal medicine at UT Southwestern. He then completed postdoctoral fellowships in cardiovascular medicine and cardiovascular epidemiology at Northwestern University, where he also earned a master of science in clinical investigation.

Board certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular medicine, he joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2008.

A busy clinical investigator, Dr. Berry has published nearly 100 peer-reviewed journal articles. His work is funded by both the American Heart Association (AHA) and the National Institutes of Health. He is also active in UT Southwestern’s research partnership with Dallas’s Cooper Institute. Finally, he serves as the Primary Investigator of the Dallas Heart Study.

Dr. Berry is a Fellow of the AHA and actively involved with the organization, serving on a number of committees. He has won numerous awards for his research, including the Elizabeth Barrett-Connor Award from the AHA. His research has been covered extensively by the media, including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Graduate School

Northwestern University , Clinical Investigation

Undergraduate

Baylor University (1997)

Medical School

UT Southwestern Medical Center (2002), Medicine

• Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Long-term Cardiovascular Risk
• Long-term Risk Estimation
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Carotid Artery

Featured Publications

Midlife Fitness and the Development of Chronic Conditions in Later Life.

Willis BL, Gao A, Leonard D, Defina LF, Berry JD Arch. Intern. Med. 2012 Aug 1-8

Association between family history and coronary heart disease death across long-term follow-up in men: the Cooper Center Longitudinal Study.

Bachmann JM, Willis BL, Ayers CR, Khera A, Berry JD Circulation 2012 Jun 125 25 3092-8

Lifetime risks of cardiovascular disease.

Berry JD, Dyer A, Cai X, Garside DB, Ning H, Thomas A, Greenland P, Van Horn L, Tracy RP, Lloyd-Jones DM N. Engl. J. Med. 2012 Jan 366 4 321-9

Cardiorespiratory fitness and classification of risk of cardiovascular disease mortality.

Gupta S, Rohatgi A, Ayers CR, Willis BL, Haskell WL, Khera A, Drazner MH, de Lemos JA, Berry JD Circulation 2011 Apr 123 13 1377-83

Lifetime risks for cardiovascular disease mortality by cardiorespiratory fitness levels measured at ages 45, 55, and 65 years in men. The Cooper Center Longitudinal Study.

Berry JD, Willis B, Gupta S, Barlow CE, Lakoski SG, Khera A, Rohatgi A, de Lemos JA, Haskell W, Lloyd-Jones DM J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 2011 Apr 57 15 1604-10

Prevalence and progression of subclinical atherosclerosis in younger adults with low short-term but high lifetime estimated risk for cardiovascular disease: the coronary artery risk development in young adults study and multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis.

Berry JD, Liu K, Folsom AR, Lewis CE, Carr JJ, Polak JF, Shea S, Sidney S, O'Leary DH, Chan C, Lloyd-Jones DM Circulation 2009 Jan 119 3 382-9

Biomarkers of chronic cardiac injury and hemodynamic stress identify a malignant phenotype of left ventricular hypertrophy in the general population.

Neeland IJ, Drazner MH, Berry JD, Ayers CR, Defilippi C, Seliger SL, Nambi V, McGuire DK, Omland T, de Lemos JA J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 2013 Jan 61 2 187-95

Lifetime risk and years lived free of total cardiovascular disease.

Wilkins JT, Ning H, Berry J, Zhao L, Dyer AR, Lloyd-Jones DM JAMA 2012 Nov 308 17 1795-801

Lifetime risk for cancer death by sex and smoking status: the lifetime risk pooling project.

Gawron A, Hou L, Ning H, Berry JD, Lloyd-Jones DM Cancer Causes Control 2012 Oct 23 10 1729-37

Association of cardiorespiratory fitness with total, cardiovascular, and noncardiovascular mortality across 3 decades of follow-up in men and women.

Vigen R, Ayers C, Willis B, DeFina L, Berry JD Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes 2012 May 5 3 358-64

• Fellow, American Heart Association
  (2012)
• Dedman Family Scholar in Clinical Care
  (2008)
• AstraZeneca’s Cardiovascular Young Investigators’ Forum, First Place
  (2007)
• Elizabeth Barrett-Connor Award Winner from the American Heart Association
  (2007)

• American Heart Association, Council on Epidemiology and Prevention