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Care Philosophy: As South Jersey’s premier tertiary care provider, the Surgical Specialties Institute at Cooper University Health Care provides the highest quality of care for every patient. Committed to excellence in education, research, innovation and leadership, the Surgical Specialties Institute at Cooper offers patients cutting-edge surgical options in a world-class facility performed by some of the region’s top surgeons.

Biography: Dr. Seth Howard Berk specializes in hematology/oncology, and is board certified in internal medicine, hematology and oncology. For more than 13 years, he has been treating patients in the Mount Holly community. Dr. Berk is the Section Chief of hematology/oncology at Virtua Memorial Hospital, Assistant Chairman of the Department of Medicine and Co-Chairman of the Internal Medicine Physician Peer Review Committee. He is actively involved in enrolling patients in clinical trials. Dr. Berk received his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed his residency at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in internal medicine and conducted his fellowship in both hematology and oncology at the Hospital of the University of Chicago. He was involved in both clinical and laboratory research, where his focus was in the development of new chemotherapy agents to treat a variety of cancers. Dr. Berk holds is a member of the Medical Society of New Jersey, American Society of Clinical Oncology, and American Society of Hematology.

Biography: Dr. Strair is an internationally recognized hematologist/oncologist with expertise in hematologic malignancies, acute and chronic leukemia, lymphoma, Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia, Hodgkin's disease, multiple myeloma, myelodysplasia and related diseases; blood cancers, hematopoietic stem cell (or bone marrow) transplantation. He serves as the Chief of Blood Disorders at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey.