Wheeler Clinic, founded in 1968, is a unique provider of behavioral health services for children, adolescents, adults and families that include mental health, substance abuse, special education, early childhood development, prevention, an employee assistance program (EAP) and community education.

In Memoriam David J. Berkowtiz, Ph.D.

David J. Berkowitz, Ph.D., executive director of Wheeler Clinic, died Saturday, April 5, 2008 following a courageous battle with leukemia. Dr. Berkowitz, a resident of West Hartford, received a stem cell transplant in August of 2007 at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Although the transplant was successful, Dr. Berkowitz’s immune system had been weakened and he suffered complications.

“Dr. David Berkowitz was a visionary leader,” said Ann E. Thomas, chair of the Wheeler Clinic Board of Trustees, “his extraordinary contributions to the behavioral health community have fostered positive change for children and families, created a seamless continuum of strength-based, solution-focused services that spans Connecticut’s urban and suburban communities and nurtured public-private partnerships to facilitate statewide systemic change.”

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