Robert B. Berger attended Rutgers University where he received his B.A. in Microbiology (cum laude). He earned his M.D. degree in 1978 from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He was a resident of internal medicine at St. Francis Hospital and a resident of diagnostic radiology at Yale University School of Medicine. After his residency, he completed a year of fellowship in Nuclear Medicine and Ultrasound.

Dr. Berger was Clinical Assistant Professor at Yale from 1981-1990, and in 1984 he became Clinical Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Imaging at Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine. He has been an attending radiologist at University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP) since 1983. He has served on the executive committee at UMCP including one-year terms as secretary, vice-president and president. He is currently a chairman of UMCP's Physician Advisory Committee and Radiation Safety Committee. In 1996, he passed the initial certification examination in nuclear cardiology administered by the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology.

Dr. Berger is a member of the American College of Radiology, the Radiological Society of North America, the Society of Nuclear Medicine, the American Medical Society, the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, and the New Jersey Medical Society.

He has been published in Pediatric Radiology, the Journal of Clinical Ultrasound, and the American Journal of Roentgenology. His articles have been presented at the Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago.