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Mark Kritchevsky, MD
Clinical ProfessorEmail: mkritchevsky@ucsd.edu
Dr. Mark Kritchevsky is an award-winning clinician teacher who has won 33 teaching awards and honors since he joined the UCSD faculty in 1982. During this time he also has conducted research, primarily on various memory disorders, and has performed extensive service. Dr. Kritchevsky 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. Dr. Kritchevsky has been on the clinical faculty of the Department of Neurosciences since 1982.
Dr. Kritchevsky’s clinical activities are devoted primarily to neurological education. He is now the director of the neurology residents’ continuity clinic at the VA, and he staffs about half the patients seen there each year. Dr. Kritchevsky 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. Additionally, Dr. Kritchevsky performs outpatient neurological consultations on all the Seniors Only Care (SOCARE) new patients. He provides second opinions for other neurologists and performs independent neurological examinations for attorneys; these consultations are related predominantly to behavioral neurological issues.
Dr. Kritchevsky has been the director of the School of Medicine’s Basic Neurology core course since 1989 and the director of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science’s Basic Neurology core course since 2006. He serves a primary role as instructor in both these courses. Dr. Kritchevsky developed a clinical neurology tutorial that is now a part of the neurology curriculum of the third year medical students during their neurology clerkship. He developed and remains the instructor for a multiyear vertically-integrated neurology curriculum for the UCSD psychiatry residents. Additionally, Dr. Kritchevsky developed and teaches the bulk of the 5-day crash course for incoming neurology residents. He teaches the neurology residents a neuroanatomy course once each year, and a behavioral neurology course once every 18 months.
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’s service has included serving as the advisor of about 25 medical students each academic year. He was the director of the UCSD neurology residency training program from 1992 – 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.