Ivor David Berkowitz, MBBCH
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Pediatric Anesthesiology
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About Ivor David Berkowitz
Primary Academic Title
Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Background
Dr. Ivor Berkowitz is a Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology/ Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include pediatric anesthesiology, pediatric critical care and pediatric bioethics.
Dr. Berkowitz received his BSc and MBBCh degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School in Johannesburg, South Africa. He completed residencies in pediatrics at the University of Colorado Medical Center and in anesthesia at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and fellowships in pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Rochester Medical Center and in pediatric critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He then joined the faculty of the Dept of Anesthesiology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He graduated with an MBA from the Johns Hopkins Care School of Business in 2008 and was recently appointed as affiliate faculty in the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.
Over the past several decades, Dr. Berkowitz has assumed leadership positions as the Director of the Johns Hopkins Pediatric Transport Program, the Pediatric ECMO Program and the Clinical Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.
Dr. Berkowitz’s research interests are wide and include the anesthetic implications of dwarfism, the pathophysiology of the intracranial vault in acute bacterial meningitis in children and a broad range of bioethical issues in children with critical illness especially issues relating to brain death and disorders of consciousness.
Centers and Institutes
- Berman Institute for Bioethics
- Johns Hopkins Children's Center
Recent News Articles and Media Coverage
Palliative and Hospice Care for Dying Children, PBS, September 7, 2001
Additional Academic Titles
Professor of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Anesthetic implications of dwarfism, Ethics of brain death determination, Pathophysiology of the intracranial vault in bacterial meningitis.
Lab Website
Ivor Berkowitz Lab
- Research in the Ivor Berkowitz Lab targets pediatric critical care medicine. We are particularly interested in the pathophysiology behind the cerebrovascular dysfunction that occurs in bacterial meningitis as well as the anesthetic and perioperative complications of patients with dwarfing syndromes.
Research Summary
Dr. Berkowitz’s early basic science research was focused on the determination of cerebral and myocardial blood flow during various mechanical and pharmacological perturbations of CPR, followed by studies on the control of the cerebral circulation in animal models of acute bacterial meningitis. Subsequent clinical research, investigated anesthetic implications of dwarfism, hypertension in achondroplasia, sedation in the PICU, Chlorhexidine skin decontamination and infection prevention, early PICU mobilization and exploring ethical issues surrounding the determination of brain death, particularly challenges to the neurological determination of brain death and whether consent should be required for the conduct of the apnea test.
PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Berkowitz,%20Ivor[Full%20Author%20Name]&cmd=DetailsSearch
Selected Publications
Berkowitz I, Burgart A, Truog RD, Mancuso TJ,MD, Char D, Lantos JD. Ethics Rounds: Parents demand and teen refuses epidural anesthesia. Pediatrics. 2020;145(6): e20193295
Berkowitz I, Garrett J. Legal and Ethical Considerations for Requiring Consent for Apnea Testing in Brain Death Determination, The American Journal of Bioethics. 2020;20(6):4-16. DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2020.1754501
Berkowitz ID, Hayden WR, Traystman RJ, Jones MD. Hemophilus influenzae type B impairment of pial vessel autoregulation in rats. Pediatr Res. 1993;33(1): 48-52
Hoover-Fong J, Alade AY, Ain M, Berkowitz I, Bober M, Carter E, Hecht J, Hoernschemeyer D, Krakow D, MacCarrick G, Mackenzie WG, Mendoza R, Okenfuss E, Popplewell D, Raggio C, Schulze K, McGready J. Blood pressure in adults with short stature skeletal dysplasias. Am J Med Genet A. 2020;182(1):150-161
Morrison W, Berkowitz I. Do not attempt resuscitation orders in pediatrics. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2007;54(5):757-772
Memberships
- American Society of Anesthesiology
- Society of Critical Care Medicine
- Society of Pediatric Anesthesia
- American Society of Bioethics and Humanities
- Member, Extracorporeal Life Support Organization
Expertise
Education
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Residency, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, 1984University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Fellowship, Infectious Diseases, 1980University of Colorado Anschutz Medical School
Residency, Pediatrics, 1979Tufts University School of Medicine
Fellowship, Pediatrics, 1975Massachusetts General Hospital
Residency, Pathology, 1974Pulse Beat Medical School
Medical Education, MBBCh, 1970Board Certifications
Pediatric Anesthesiology
American Board of Anesthesiology, 2015Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
American Board of Pediatrics, 1987Anesthesiology
American Board of Anesthesiology, 1986Pediatrics
American Board of Pediatrics, 1980Insurance
- Aetna
- CareFirst
- Cigna
- First Health
- Geisinger Health Plan
- HealthSmart/Accel
- Humana
- Johns Hopkins Health Plans
- MultiPlan
- Pennsylvania's Preferred Health Networks (PPHN)
- Point Comfort Underwriters
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- UnitedHealthcare
- Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)