Amy Berman was appointed Program Officer of the John A. Hartford Foundation on January 1, 2006. She heads the Foundation’s Integrating and Improving Services portfolio, focusing on the development and dissemination of innovative, cost-effective models of care that improve health outcomes for older adults.  

Prior to that, Ms. Berman served as nursing education initiatives director for the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at New York University College of Nursing. Among her responsibilities at New York University, Ms. Berman conducted a national survey on gerontological nursing content in baccalaureate programs. Her findings were cited in the Institute on Medicine’s report, Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce. Ms. Berman also coordinated the Hartford Institute’s Geriatric Nursing Research Summer Scholars Program for post-doctoral nursing researchers and collaborated with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing to provide programs that enhance the geriatric competence of nursing educators and the gerontological content in curricula. Before joining the university, Ms. Berman worked in health care administration for twenty years with responsibility for performance improvement efforts through data-driven change, team facilitation, health information technology, accreditation, and regulatory compliance issues. She served as JCAHO coordinator and as accreditation consultant in performance improvement for a variety of health care institutions. Ms. Berman served on the New York State Department of Health's Emergency Preparedness Task Force and on the professional advisory boards of health care institutions in New York City.

Currently, Ms. Berman serves on the board of the New York University Alumni Association and is a member of the honor society of nursing, Sigma Theta Tau Tau, Epsilon Chapter.