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Local Pediatrician Dr. Irwin Berkowitz to Autograph Book at Shaw’s Book Shop

Shaw’s
Book Shop is happy to announce that local author and noted Pediatrician Dr.
Irwin Berkowitz will join us on Saturday, May 31 from 1:00pm until 3:00pm.  He will be signing “Instructions not Included”, which was recently released.    Come and celebrate Dr. Berkowitz’s first
book.  Shaw’s Book Shop is located at 79
Westwood Avenue, Westwood.



 



With
four decades of pediatric practice, Chestnut Ridge Pediatric’s own Dr.
Berkowitz has penned his words of wisdom in a wonderful parenting guide and
medical memoir.  Drawing on the
commonsense tradition of beloved pediatrician and parenting guide author Dr.
Benjamin Spock, Instructions not Included
offers new (and newly flummoxed) parents the sound advice and heartfelt
encouragement they need to bring up some of the best kids on the block.

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“I
take great pride in my experience, medical knowledge, caring attitude and
bowtie collection. Little children like my fuzzy beard and shiny head. In
addition I am an excellent listener often picking up clues that allow me to
make diagnoses without excessive laboratory testing. I have a special interest
in the parental child interaction, ADHD and asthma.”  Says Dr. Berkowitz.

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Dr.
Berkowitz is the past director of the Department of Pediatrics at the Valley



Hospital.   In
2013 he was awarded both New York Magazine’s as well as Castle Connelly’s ‘Top
Doc” honor for the New York Metropolitan area in addition to New Jersey
Family’s 'New Jersey Favorite Kids' Doc’.



 



Dr.
Berkowitz and his wife of more than 30 years, Kathleen, live in Ho-Ho-Kus and
have two wonderful sons, Benjamin and Jonathan.

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