Dr. Mark Kritchevsky, MD

This physician's panel is closed to new HMO members enrolling with this physician for the first time.Dr. Mark Kritchevsky is an award-winning clinician teacher who has also done research, primarily in various memory disorders, and performed extensive service.

He obtained his medical degree from UCSD in 1977. He completed a neurology residency at UCSD in 1981, a fellowship in general clinical neurology at Dunedin Public Hospital in 1982, and a behavioral neurology fellowship at University of Iowa in 1986. He has been on the clinical faculty of the Department of Neurosciences since 1982.

Dr. Kritchevsky's clinical activities are primarily devoted to neurological education. He is the director of the neurology residents' continuity clinic at the VA, and he will staff about half the patients seen there each year. He also staffs about half the patients seen by the neurology residents in their Hillcrest continuity clinic. He attends on the Hillcrest neurology inpatient service one month …each year. He performs outpatient neurological consultations on all the Seniors Only Care (SOCARE) new patients. He also does second opinions for other neurologists and independent neurological examinations for attorneys.

Dr. Kritchevsky has served as the director of the School of Medicine's Basic Neurology core course since 1989, and as the director of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science's Basic Neurology core course since 2006. He takes a primary role as instructor in both these courses. He developed a clinical neurology tutorial that now is a part of the neurology curriculum of the third year medical students rotating on their neurology clerkship. He developed and remains the instructor for a multiyear vertically-integrated neurology curriculum for the UCSD psychiatry residents. He also teaches a courses in neuroanatomy and behavioral neurology. Since joining the UCSD faculty in 1982, he has won 33 teaching awards and honors.

Dr. Kritchevsky has conducted collaborative clinical research in behavioral neurology. With Dr. Larry R. Squire, he has studied patients with neurologic amnesic syndromes as well as patients with functional amnesia. Results of this work have been presented at scientific meetings and published as scientific articles and book chapters. Dr. Kritchevsky advises about 25 medical students each academic year. He was the director of the UCSD neurology residency training program from 1992 to 2007. He has served as a member of the National Board of Medical Examiners, United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE), Neurology/Neuroscience Task Force Committee since 2003.