International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN)

Richard Krugman, an ISPCAN founder, North America

Richard Krugman , M.D., is Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, Dean of the School of Medicine, and a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado, Denver, as well as President of University Physicians, Inc., the CU School of Medicine faculty practice plan . From 1981 to 1992, he also served as Director of the C. Henry Kempe National Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect. Dr. Krugman is a graduate of Princeton University and New York University’s School of Medicine. A board-certified pediatrician, he did his internship and residency in pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He also served two years in the 1970s with the Public Health Service at the National Institute of Health and the Food and Drug Administration and one year in the 1980s as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow and legislative assistant in the office of U.S. Senator Dave Durenberger of Minnesota.

Dr. Krugman has been Member of the Board of Directors of the National Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse (1984-1990); Chairman of the Department of Health and Human Services’ U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect (1989-1991); Member of the Board of Princeton University (2001-2005), and is currently on the Boards of Trustees of Denver Health Medical Center, the Academy on Violence and Abuse, the Hasbro Children’s Foundation, and the Kempe Children’s Foundation. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies in October 2005.

Dr. Richard Krugman

Dr. Krugman’s many professional awards include ISPCAN’s C. Henry Kempe Memorial Award (1989); The Lubchenco Perinatal Center and Kempe Club’s C. Henry Kempe Award for Service to Children (1992); The Kempe Children's Foundation’s Kempe Award (1993), the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Child Advocacy Award (1993); the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children’s Outstanding Professional Award (2000); the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Award for Outstanding Service to Maltreated Children (2003); and Prevent Child Abuse America’s Anne Cohn Donnelly Leadership Award (2005).

He has been author or co-author of 58 reviews, chapters, and symposia; 38 original papers, 22 editorials and commentaries, and 10 books, including four editions of the Review of Pediatrics and the fifth edition of The Battered Child.

He also has been Associate Editor (1982-1984), Co-Editor-in-Chief (1984-1986), and Editor-in-Chief (1987-2002) of Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal., as well as President-elect (1990-1992) and President (1992-1994) of the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect.

ISPCAN is proud to call Dr. Richard Krugman a member.