Richard L. Berkowitz

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Richard L. Berkowitz is an American gynecologist .

Richard Berkowitz studied at New York University School of Medicine and completed his residency at Kings County Medical Center (internship) and New York Hospital / Cornell Medical Center (residency). He was chief obstetrician in the obstetrics and gynecology department at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York for 18 years before becoming professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University (College of Physicians and Surgeons). He has also been the director of resident education there since 2005 .

Berkowitz made important contributions to the development of surgical therapies and diagnostic methods for children in the womb, such as the treatment of rhesus incompatibility , obstructions of the urinary tract in fetuses, the treatment of problematic multiple pregnancies, and the use of ultrasound for diagnosis of pregnancies.

He has published over 200 specialist articles and 35 book chapters and books. In 2012 he received the König Faisal Prize with James Bruce Bussel . Berkowitz worked with Bussel for more than two decades on the research and development of diagnostic procedures and non-invasive therapies for alloimmune thrombocytopenia .

He was president of the New York Obstetrical Society.

Fonts

  • with Sheldon Cherry, Nathan G. Kase Rovinsky and Guttmacher's Medical, surgical, and gynecologic complications of pregnancy , Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins 1985
  • Editor: Critical care of the obstetric patient , New York, Churchill Livingstone 1983
  • Editor with John C. Hobbins, Fred Winsberg: Ultrasonography in obstetrics and gynecology , Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins 1983
  • Edited with Donald R. Coustan, Tara K. Mochizuki: Handbook of prescribing medications during pregnancy , 2nd edition, Boston, Little Brown 1986
  • Editor with Carmel Cohen, Nathan Kase Obstetric Ultrasonography, gynecologic oncology , Churchill Livingstone 1988

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SURNAME Berkowitz, Richard L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century