School of Medicine dean inducted into the Institute
of Medicine of the National Academies
Richard D. Krugman, MD, dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver, is one of 64 new members inducted into the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM), raising the Institute’s total active membership to 1,586.
This year marks the 36th anniversary of the Institute of Medicine, which was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to honor professional achievement in the health sciences and to serve as a national resource for independent analysis and recommendations on issues related to medicine, biomedical sciences, and health.
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| Richard D. Krugman, MD |
Current active members elect new members from among candidates nominated for their professional achievement and commitment to service.
Krugman’s induction brings the total number of UCD faculty in the IOM to 10. Most recently Robert Freedman, MD, chair of psychiatry and professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at UCD, was elected to the IOM in 2004 and inducted in 2005. Other UCD faculty in the IOM are Frederick Battaglia, MD; Larry Green, MD; Richard Johnston, MD; Spero Manson, PhD; Robert Schrier, MD; James Strain, MD; David Talmadge, MD; and M. Roy Wilson, MD, MS.
Krugman was nominated for his international prominence in the field of child abuse. Prior to becoming dean in 1992, Krugman, a professor of pediatrics, served as director of the C. Henry Kempe National Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect from 1981-1992. He has earned many honors in the field of child abuse and neglect, and headed the U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect from 1988-1991.
“ Dick Krugman, who has served as dean of our School of Medicine for the past 15 years, is an internationally renowned pediatrician in the field of child abuse and neglect. This recognition is long overdue and a credit to the University of Colorado Denver and his profession,” said UCD Chancellor, M. Roy Wilson, MD, MS. “Being inducted into this prestigious organization is indicative of the high caliber of faculty and academic leaders on this campus.”
Krugman is also president of University Physicians, Inc., the School of Medicine faculty practice plan. He is a graduate of Princeton University and earned his medical degree at New York University School of Medicine. A board-certified pediatrician, he did his internship and residency in pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Following a two-year appointment in the early 1970s with the Public Health Service at the National Institute of Health and the Food and Drug Administration, Krugman joined the UCD faculty in 1973. He went back to the Washington, D.C., area in 1980 as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow and served for a year as a legislative assistant in the office of U.S. Sen. Dave Durenberger of Minnesota.
At the University of Colorado Denver, Krugman has held a variety of administrative positions including director of admissions and co-director of the Child Health Associate Program; director of the university’s SEARCH/AHEC program; vice chairman for clinical affairs in the Department of Pediatrics, and director of the Kempe Center. More recently, he has worked with the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Advisory Board on Health Care Delivery. He was chair of the AAMC Council of Deans 2001-2002.
He has authored more than 100 original papers, chapters and editorials and four books and recently stepped down after 15 years as editor-in-chief of Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal. He serves on the boards of trustees of Denver Health and the Kempe Children’s Foundation.
With his induction, Krugman makes a commitment to devote a significant amount of volunteer time as a member of various IOM committees, which engage in a broad range of studies on health policy issues.
