Richard Krugman, M.D.

Richard D. Krugman, MD, is a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and former Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and Dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He served as Director of the C. Henry Kempe National Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect from 1981-1992 and has gained international prominence in the field of child abuse. Dr. Krugman 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, Dr. Krugman joined the CU faculty in 1973. He went back to the Washington 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. Senator Dave Durenberger of Minnesota. He has earned many honors in the field of child abuse and neglect and headed the U.S. Advisory Board of Child Abuse and neglect from 1988-1991. Dr. Krugman is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has authored over 145 original papers, chapters, editorials and thirteen books and stepped down after 15 years as Editor-in-Chief of Child Abuse and Neglect: the International Journal in 2001. He is the 2018 Co-Founder and Chair of the Board of the National Foundation to End Child Abuse and Neglect.