Bio:

Dr. Berkman's entire career has been immersed in practice research in health and gerontology. Before coming to Columbia, she directed the Abrams Interdisciplinary Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and was Associate Director of the Harvard Geriatric Education Center, Division on Aging, Harvard Medical School.

Awards:

• Social Work Pioneer Award, NASW Foundation, 2004
• Career Achievement Award, Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work (AGE-SW). Given at the Annual Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education, Nashville, TN, March 2002.

Research Interests:

• Gerontology
• Health/mental health policy and service delivery issues
• Outcome research in geriatric health care

Current Projects:

• Testing a model to educate social work students for geriatric practices
• Development of screening mechanisms to identify older
  patients/families in need of social work services in primary care

Recent Publications:

Books and Chapters

Berkman, B. & D'Ambruoso, S. (Eds.). (2006). The Oxford Handbook of Social Work in Health and Aging. New York: Oxford University Press.

Berkman, B., & Harootyan, L. (Eds.) (2003). Social Work and Health Care in an Aging Society. New York: Springer Publishing Company.

Berkman, B., Maramaldi, P., Breon, E., & Howe, J. (2003). "Social Work Gerontological Assessment Revisited." In J. Howe, Ed., Older people and their caregivers across the spectrum of care. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press.

Journal Articles
Berkman, B., Gardner, D., Zodikoff, B., & Harootyan, L.  (2007).  Social work and aging in the emerging health care world.  Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 48 (1/2).

Berkman, B., Gardner, D., Zodikoff, B., & Harootyan, L. (2005). Social work in health care with older adults: Future challenges. Families in Society, 86 (4).

Maramaldi, P., & Berkman, B. (2005). "Assessment and the ubiquity of culture: Threats to validity in measures of health related quality of life." Health & Social Work, 30 (1), 27-38.

Berkman, B., & Volland, P. (2004). Social work practice with hospitalized elders: Counselor, case manager, and discharge planner. The Hospitalist, Special Supplement, December 21-24.

Volland, P., & Berkman, B. (2004). "Educating social workers to meet the challenge of an aging urban population." Academic Medicine, 79 (12), 1192-1197.

Maramaldi, P., Gardner, D., Berkman, B., D'Ambruoso, S., Ireland, K., & Howe, J. (2004). Mentoring social work faculty: A gerontological perspective. Gerontology and Geriatrics Education, 25 (1), 89-105.

Last updated May 31, 2007.