Dr. Murray R. Berkowitz currently is a professor of neuromusculoskeletal medicine and osteopathic manipulative medicine at PCOM Georgia, where he was inaugural director of the Family Medicine/OMM Clerkships as well as the inaugural director of Preventive and Community-Based Medicine. He also served as the inaugural Associate Dean for Clerkships and Core Site Development.
Dr. Berkowitz had a private osteopathic medicine practice in Arlington, Virginia.
and Annapolis, Maryland. He served as a staff physician at Delaware’s Stockley Center
for the Developmentally Disabled. Previously, he worked for the Virginia Department
of Health as director of a three-county health district. Before that, he worked for
the State of Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Community Health Administration
and was a visiting assistant professor of computer and information sciences at Towson
University.
Prior to that, Dr. Berkowitz served on active military duty as a Medical Corps officer
in the United States Army. Before attending medical school, he served in numerous
assignments in the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force.
Dr. Berkowitz is a disabled veteran and is a medically retired Army Lieutenant Colonel
(LTC) due to service-connected combat-related disabilities. He was a military aviator
and parachutist and also holds the Master Space Badge and the Office of the Secretary
of Defense Identification Badge. He has 26 military awards and decorations.
Dr. Berkowitz is serving a three-year term through 2020 as a member-at-large to the American Osteopathic Association Bureau of Scientific Affairs and Public Health. He was appointed by AOA president Michael A. Baker, DO.
Dr. Murray R. Berkowitz received his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) degree
from the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery at what is now the Des Moines
University Osteopathic Medical Center. He earned the Master of Public Health degree
at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.
Dr. Berkowitz is residency trained in general preventive medicine and public health
(State of Maryland Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene). He is board certified in Neuromusculoskeletal
Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (C-NMM/OMM) American Osteopathic Board
of Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine, as well as in General Preventive Medicine and Public
Health (C-PVM) American Osteopathic Board of Preventive Medicine, and holds added
certification in Occupational Medicine (CAQ-Occ Med) American Osteopathic Board of
Preventive Medicine.
He also earned the Master of Arts and Master of Science degrees from Columbia University
and received his engineering degree at what is now the Polytechnic School of Engineering
of NYU. Additionally, he did advanced studies and research at the University of Texas
at Arlington and George Mason University.
Dr. Berkowitz is a graduate of the 2004-2005 AOA Health Policy Fellowship. He is
also currently a research fellow at the Osteopathic Research Center in Ft Worth, Texas.
Dr. Berkowitz is a member of the American Osteopathic Association, American Academy
of Osteopathy, Georgia Osteopathic Medical Association, Association of Military Osteopathic
Physicians and Surgeons, American Osteopathic College of Occupational and Preventive
Medicine, and American Osteopathic Academy of Medical Informatics.
He served as the secretary-treasurer of the Maryland Association of Osteopathic Physicians
in 2002-2003 and as vice president in 2006. Dr. Berkowitz also served on the AOA House
of Delegates in 2002.
He currently serves on the Osteopathic Diagnosis and Treatment Education, Medical
Economics, and Publications Committees of the AAO and was the inaugural chair of the
Informational Technologies Committee. He previously served as Vice-President (1992-1993)
and President (1993-1994) of the Des Moines Chapter of AMOPS.
Dr. Berkowitz served as associate editor (2009-2011) and scientific editor (Editor-in-Chief)
of the American Academy of Osteopathy Journal (2011-2013). He is currently a peer-reviewer
for the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, the Southern Medical Journal,
the British Journal of Medicine and Medical Research, and the International Journal
of Osteopathic Medicine. He also serves on the Journal of the American Osteopathic
Association Editorial Board.
