Division of General Pediatrics
1000 W Carson St, Box 437
Torrance, CA 90502
choskins@dhs.lacounty.gov
The Harbor-UCLA Division of General Pediatrics strives to provide outstanding care for all patients from newborns to teens. We focus both on preventative well child care and are the expert consultants for families when their child has problems with health or development. The division’s expert pediatricians are dedicated to making relationships with the children and families and working to improve care. Our General Pediatrics physicians are recognized as leaders in advocacy, medical education, quality improvement, and academics.
Leadership
Carol Berkowitz, M.D. FAAP, FACEP, Division Chief of General Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, was graduated from Barnard College and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and then completed a pediatric residency at the Roosevelt Hospital in New York. A board-certified general pediatrician, Dr. Berkowitz has been board-certified in Pediatric Emergency Medicine as well as in Child Abuse Pediatrics.
She is a Past President of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Past President of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association (APA, now the Academic Pediatric Association), Past President of the Association of Pediatric Program Directors (APPD), Chair of the Residency Review Committee (RRC) for Pediatrics, Chair of the Council of RRC Chairs, Past President of the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS). She has served on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP), the American Board of Emergency Medicine, and the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
She is a delegate from the AAP to the AMA and served on the AMA’s Council on Medical Education where she was Chair. She is currently on the Board of Directors of the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the National Resident Match Program (NRMP), and the Stakeholder Council of the American Board of Medical Specialties.
In 2006, she was the recipient of the Joseph W. St. Geme Jr. Leadership Award, and in 2007, she received the Abraham Jacobi Memorial Award. 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 6th edition.
Faculty & Administration
