Steven Berkowitz

Steven Berkowitz, MD is a Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He is a graduate of the Hahnemann College of Medicine (Now Drexel) in Philadelphia. He did his General and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training at the Yale School of Medicine, where he stayed on the faculty at the Yale Child Study Center for 13 years and was the deputy director of the National Center for Children Exposed to Violence. While there, he was the lead developer of the Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention, the first secondary prevention model to be shown to decrease the development of PTSD in children and youth.

He moved to the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine in 2009, where he started the Penn Center for Youth and Family Trauma Response and Recovery. He also worked closely with the city of Philadelphia to transform the child and adolescent Mental Health public sector to be trauma focused. While, in Philadelphia he was asked to provide court evaluations for survivors suing the Archdiocese of Philadelphia for the clergy sexual abuse. He has now provided expert evaluations and testimony for dozens of traumatized adults and youth.

He arrived at the University of Colorado in September of 2018 to establish the START Center. In addition, he has directed the Department of Psychiatry’s COVID response since March 2020.

Dr. Berkowitz has provided training to multiple organizations and Responder agencies and has written over 40 articles and chapters.