Dr. Kuritsky holds a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Boston University. He completed post-graduate work at Columbia University and did Biochemistry research at NYU Medical Center. He then attended the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed an Internal Medicine residency at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
He was in clinical practice for over 20 years at Grossmont Medical Clinic in La Mesa, California, having been a founding member of the group when it was formed in 1991. He became a participating primary care physician with Sharp Community Medical Group (SCMG) at that time. In 2009, he became an associate medical director at SCMG and in 2014, Dr. Kuritsky stopped direct patient care to become a full-time Medical Director at SCMG.
SCMG is the largest IPA in San Diego. The SCMG network includes roughly nearly 300 primary care physicians and about 800 specialists who currently provide care to more than 140,000 patients. SCMG’s physicians have access to 10 managed care health plans and offer patients comprehensive health care through an extensive physician, ancillary and hospital referral base. At SCMG, Dr. Kuritsky is the Medical Director for Population Health. In that role, he is accountable for advancing performance excellence and improving the health of the population. Additionally, he is responsible for supervision of medical management activities and provides direction and implementation of efforts that improve effectiveness and efficiency of clinical programs. Dr. Kuritsky also works closely with Practice Transformation and Performance Improvement efforts at SCMG’s independent practices, which are based on Patient Centered Medical Home principles.
He has been involved in multiple quality improvement efforts within the medical group, including the work connected with SCMG’s Vision 2020 quality initiative and the Primary Care Performance Program. Additionally, he is involved in several projects to improve SCMG physicians’ Risk Adjustment performance and their documentation and coding skills and has been a leader in the development of educational seminars related to these efforts. Dr. Kuritsky chairs SCMG’s Urgent Care Operations meetings, serves as the medical director of the Oral Anticoagulation Program and had previously been involved with the EHR implementation team for the Allscripts solution. Recently, Dr. Kuritsky was involved as a managing partner at the California Improvement Network. Additionally, he has been active with the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) and their educational collaboratives.