Medical Director, Population Health

Sharp Community Medical Group

Dr. Kuritsky is the Medical Director for Population Health at Sharp Community Medical Group (SCMG), an independent physician association in San Diego. In that role, he is accountable for advancing medical group 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 oversees the Practice Transformation and Performance Improvement efforts at SCMG’s independent practices, which are based on Patient Centered Medical Home principles. The SCMG network includes roughly 200 primary care physicians and about 600 specialists who currently provide care to nearly 130,000 patients. SCMG’s physicians have access to 10 managed care health plans and offer patients comprehensive healthcare through an extensive physician, ancillary and hospital referral base. Dr. Kuritsky is also 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 the effort to improve SCMG physicians’ documentation and coding skills, including the development of educational seminars. Dr. Kuritsky chairs SCMG’s Urgent Care Operations meetings, serves as the medical director of the Oral Anticoagulation Program and has been involved with the EHR implementation team for the Allscripts EHR and has now been assisting with SCMG’s transition to the Cerner Ambulatory EHR. 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 before attending the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed an Internal Medicine residency at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia and is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He was in clinical practice for 22 years at Grossmont Medical Clinic in La Mesa, California, having been a founding member of the group, when it was formed in 1992.