Advisory Board

Dr. Aaron Berkowitz

Dr. Aaron Berkowitz recently joined the faculty of the University of California San Francisco Department of Neurology as Professor of Neurology, where he sees patients and teaches residents and students at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and Zuckerberg 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 directed the preclinical neurology curriculum and was associate director of the neurology clerkship. His work as a neurology educator has been recognized by the Residency Teacher of the Year Award from the Harvard Neurology Residency program in both 2018 and 2019 and the O’Hara Excellence in Preclinical Teaching award from Harvard Medical School in 2016, appointment to the editorial board of Continuum, and frequent invitations to discuss neurology topics on the popular Clinical Problem Solvers podcast. He has published 80 peer-reviewed articles, several book chapters including the neurology chapter for the Oxford Manual of Humanitarian Medicine, and four books including the neurology textbook Lange Clinical Neurology and Neuroanatomy: A Localization-Based Approach and One by One by One: Making a Small Difference Amid a Billion Problems about his work as the only neurologist in Haiti. He received his MD from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and his PhD from Harvard University, and completed his neurology residency in the Massachusetts General Hospital-Brigham and Women's Hospital program, where he served as chief resident.