Carol Berkowitz, MD

Professor

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Dept. of Pediatrics

Plenary ADVANCING A PROFESSIONAL AGENDA ON CHILD ABUSE: WHAT CAN A PRESIDENT DO?

B4 FAILURE TO THRIVE: A SYMPTOM, NOT A DISEASE

Dr. Berkowitz, born in New York, attended Barnard College, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and did her pediatric training at Roosevelt Hospital.  After a number of years in practice, she joined the full-time faculty at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California where she is currently Professor and Executive Vice Chair in the Department of Pediatrics. 

Carol’s clinical interests have been in general and emergency pediatrics, with a focus on child maltreatment.  Academically, she has been active in the area of Women in Pediatrics, having founded the Women in Medicine Special Interest Group of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association (APA). She also served as the APA’s President.  Carol served on the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) Committee on the Pediatric Workforce, and its subcommittee, Women in Pediatrics. She spent 6 years on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP), served on the Program Directors Committee of the ABP, and helped develop the Resident Program on Professionalism in Pediatrics. She was a pediatric program director for 20 years, was President of the Association of Pediatric Program Directors and served on the Board of Directors of the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education. She was the AAP’s representative to the Residency Review Committee in Pediatrics, and was the Chair of the RRC and of the Council of RRC Chairs. 

She is currently the AAP’s representative to the Council of Medical Specialty Societies, and is the President of that organization.  From 2004-2005, she was the President of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She was the 2005 recipient of the Joseph W. St. Geme Leadership Award.  She is the author of multiple articles and the editor of Pediatrics: A Primary Care Approach – a text used by many medical students and residents.