MEET DR. JERISA ER
Board-certified in Emergency Medicine Dr. Jerisa Berry, is a nationally recognized number 1- best-selling author, international speaker, consultant and media personality, multi-award winning physician, and medical expert.
She shares her expertise in real-world health strategies and emergencies as a sought-after media expert regarding acute, emergent, and chronic health conditions. Her mission is simple: Make ER visits less stressful and more productive by increasing public awareness. Her personal journey of infertility has successfully inspired and encouraged over 5000 women across the world who downloaded her initial Secure Your Fertility APP in 2017 when infertility was first becoming widely accepted. She also overcame molestation as a child and depression as she sought to become the first doctor in her family. She's written 5 books and audiobooks on these adversities and other life struggles, available on her website, drjerisa.com.
Having been quoted in several media outlets, both print and national television, she founded SecureYourFertility.com in 2017, one of the first to give women direct access to testing, increased awareness and offered a solution to women choosing to delay motherhood. She shares her knowledge on all medical emergencies through social media to help people understand a multitude of health conditions and what their first response should be in emergency health situations, how to make their ER visit less stressful, and potentially avoid an ER visit when possible. She tries to answer this question of many and in her words, "What the ER gone do, chile?"
Dr. Jerisa Berry graduated from Howard University and earned her medical degree from New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, completing her internship and residency at Midwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.
After a 3-year struggle to become a mother, as she continues to share her journey candidly, she is also a busy mom to two toddlers.
In addition to medicine, her passion is to inspire all people that possibilities are endless no matter the odds they face and that it is their outlook that determines their outcome.
