Ronald A Berna, MD

Dermatology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Dermatology Radnor
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About me

  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Dermatology

My education and training

  • Residency: Pennsylvania Hospital
  • Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Spoken languages

English
English

Insurance accepted

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Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Berna is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and conditions

Research

Publications

Meng S, Berna R, Takeshita J, Hoffstad O, Shin D, Mitra N, Margolis DJ Bidirectional Associations Between Seborrheic Dermatitis and Epithelial Barrier Diseases: A Retrospective Cohort Study , Allergy, 81(3): 2026,808-17


Meng S, Berna R, Hoffstad O, Takeshita J, Shin D, Chiesa Fuxench ZC, Margolis DJ Epithelial Barrier Diseases Among Adult Patients with Seborrheic Dermatitis , JAMA Derm, 162(1): 2026,15-23


Berna R, Baumrin E Therapeutics for lymphogranuloma vereneum , In Kang S, Goh CL, Kim N, Kwatra S (Ed.), Therapeutics: a Clinician's Guide to Dermatologic Treatment (pp. TBD): 2026


Jain N, Berna R, Hejazi EZ, Pugliese SC, Djulbegovic M A fruitful workup , N England Journal of Medicine, 393(9): 2025,907-914


Berna R, Hasbun T, Adams D, Moon AT, Treat JR Significant improvement of a nevus spilus-type congenital melanocytic nevus with oral selumetinib , Pediatr Dermatol, 41(5): 2024,936-7


Berna E, Quinlan M, Baumrin E Author's reply to Parvathaneni et al. comment on: “Methotrexate cutaneous ulceration: a systematic review of cases” , Am J Clin Dermatol, 24(3): 2023,491-2


Margolis DJ, Duke JL, Mitra N, Berna RA, Hoffstad OJ, Wasserman JR, Dinou A, Ferriola DA, Mosbruger TL, Yan AC, Monos DS A combination of HLA-DP α and β chain polymorphisms paired with a SNP in the DPB1 3’UTR region, denoting expression levels, are associated with Atopic Dermatitis , Front Genet, 14: 2023,1004138


Margolis DJ, Mitra N, Hoffstad OJ, Berna R, Kim BS, Chopra A, Phillips EJ Association of KIR2DL5, KIR2DS5, and KIR2DS1 allelic variation and atopic dermatitis , Sci Rep, 13(1): 2023,1730


Berna R, Margolis DJ, Damsky W, Barbieri JS Annual health care utilization and cost of granuloma annulare in the United States, 2016 to 2019: A cross-sectional study , J Am Acad Dermatol, 88(1): 2023,217-9


Berna R, Mitra N, Hoffstad O, Wubbenhorst B, Nathanson KL, Margolis DJ Uncommon variants in FLG2 and TCHHL1 are associated with remission of atopic dermatitis in a large longitudinal US cohort , Arch Derm Res, 314(10): 2022,953-959