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 Barbara J. Berkman, D.S.W.
Dr. Barbara Berkman is the Helen Rehr/Ruth Fizdale Professor of Health and Mental Health at Columbia University School of Social Work and Adjunct Professor, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. She was formerly the Director of the Ruth D. and Archie A. Abrams Interdisciplinary Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and the Associate Director of the Geriatric Education Center in the Division of Aging at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Berkman received her doctorate from Columbia and a post-doctoral Kellogg fellowship to study geriatric health care service delivery. She received her MA from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, and her BA in Philosophy from the University of Michigan. She has directed 23 federally and foundation supported research projects focusing on issues in gerontology and health care, and is currently Principal Investigator and Director of the John A. Hartford Foundation's Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholars Program. She is a former President of the Institute for the Advancement for Social Work Research (IASWR).
Dr. Berkman has received many awards primarily because of her research and policy efforts in health care and gerontology. In 1986, she became the first recipient of the Edith Abbott Distinguished Alumni Award of the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. In 1987, she received the "Greatest Contribution to Practice" Award from the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, and the Hyman J. Weiner Award for "Distinguished Scholarship Contributing to Health Care Practice and Administration" from the Society for Hospital Social Work Directors of the American Hospital Association. In 1994, Dr. Berkman was honored by the National Association of Social Workers when she received the Ruth Knee/Milton Wittman Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Health/Mental Health Policy.
Dr. Berkman's professional contribution to the knowledge base of social work in geriatric health care is evidenced in her publications which includes books, chapters, and over 100 articles. In recognition of her research in gerontology and health care, she has been named a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and of the New York Academy of Medicine.
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