Harbor-UCLA Pediatrics

Carol Berkowitz, M.D., F.A.A.P, F.A.C.E.P.
Division Chief, Division of General and Emergency Pediatrics
Professor of Pediatrics
Director of Subspecialty Clinics
Director, Failure to Thrive Clinic

Contact Information:

Phone: (310) 222-3091
Fax: (310) 533-8579
Email: carolb@pol.net

Carol is currently Executive Vice Chair in the Department of Pediatrics at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She has served in numerous national leadership positions including President of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association, President of the Association of Pediatric Program Directors, Chair of the RRC for Pediatrics, Chair of the Council of RRC Chairs, President of the American Academy of Pediatrics (2004-2005) and most recently (2006-2008) President of the Council of Medical Specialty Societies.

Her interests have focused on women in medicine, medical education, pediatric emergency medicine and child maltreatment. In 2005, she was the recipient of the Joseph W. St. Geme Jr. Leadership Award, and in 2007, she received the Abraham Jacobi Memorial Award, an acknowledgement by both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association of her numerous contributions to the health and well-being of children and to the pediatric community. She is the author of several hundred articles and book chapters and is the editor of Berkowitz’s Pediatrics: A Primary Care Approach, a textbook now in its third edition.

She is married to David Berkowitz M.D., a gastroenterologist, and the proud mother of 2 daughters, Nicole and Ellie, and the grandmother of 4.