University of California San Francisco Give to UCSF
Bakar Auditorium, Helen Diller Cancer Research Building , room 160 (auditorium) View map Free Event

1450 3rd Street

View map Free Event

Dilemmas in Global Neurology: Clinical Care, Education, and Research


Aaron Berkowitz, MD, PhD
Director, Global Neurology Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School


As Director of the Global Neurology Program, Aaron Berkowitz, MD, PhD  has provided neurology education and clinical consultation in Haiti (where there is one neurologist for a population of approximately 10 million) and Malawi (where there is one pediatric neurologist but no adult neurologist for a population of approximately 16 million).

In collaboration with Physicians for Haiti and Partners in Health, he has helped to develop educational materials, clinical protocols, and means for internet consultation for clinicians practicing without access to neurologists. He has taught neurology courses to the family medicine residents at St. Nicholas Hospital in St. Marc, Haiti (Supported by the Ministry of Health of Haiti and Partners in Health), to clinicians at St. Boniface Hospital in Fond-des-Blancs, Haiti (through Physicians for Haiti), to medical students and residents at University of Malawi College of Medicine in Lilongwe, Malawi and Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, and to physicians and clinical officers at Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo in Neno, Malawi.

Event Details

  • Global Health Sciences

1 person is interested in this event

User Activity

No recent activity