Aaron Berkowitz, MD, PhD, FAAN
Aaron Berkowitz is a Professor of Clinical Neurology at UCSF, where he serves as a neurohospitalist, general neurologist, and clinician-educator at SF VA Medical Center and San Francisco General Hospital. He previously served as director of global neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, where he developed and directed the first year Mind, Brain, Behavior course.
He serves on the editorial boards of Continuum: Lifelong Learning in Neurology and Practical Neurology (BMJ), wrote the neurology chapter for the Oxford Manual of Humanitarian Medicine, and is the author of four books including the neurology textbook Clinical Neurology and Neuroanatomy: A Localization-Based Approach and One by One by One: Making a Small Difference Amid a Billion Problems, which tells the stories of patients with brain tumors in Haiti and his efforts to seek care for them with Partners In Health.
His work as a neurology educator has been recognized by the Residency Teacher of the Year Award from the MGH/BWH/Harvard Neurology Residency program in both 2018 and 2019 and the O’Hara Excellence in Preclinical Teaching award from Harvard Medical School in 2016. He has taught neurology to students, residents, and primary providers around the world including in Haiti, Malawi, Zambia (virtually), and Japan.
As Health and Policy Advisor to Partners In Health and Senior Specialist Consultant to Doctors Without Borders, he has worked tirelessly to improve access to neurologic care and education worldwide including development of the first neurology residency in Haiti, neurologic consultation and CME for primary care providers in Navajo Nation, consultation on undergraduate medical education curriculum reform in Vietnam, and clinical teleconsultation for MSF. This work has been recognized by the Mridha Humanitarian Award from the American Brain Foundation in 2018 and the Viste Patient Advocate of the Year Award from the American Academy of Neurology in 2019.
Aaron completed his MD at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and his neurology residency at Brigham and Women's and Massachusetts General Hospitals, where he served as chief resident.