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Steven Kritz is a retired physician, who has been in the healthcare
field for 50 years. He graduated from SUNY Downstate Medical School and
completed IM Residency at Kings County Hospital. This was followed by
almost 40 years of healthcare experience, including 19 years of direct
patient care in a rural setting as a Board Certified Internist; 17 years
of clinical research at a private-not-for-profit healthcare agency; and
over 35 years of involvement in public health, and health systems
infrastructure and administration activities. He retired 5 years ago,
and became a member of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the
agency where he had done clinical research, where he has been IRB Chair
for the past 3 years.
