About the Speaker

Dr. Mark D. Krieger is a professor of neurological surgery at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. He is also the surgeon-in-chief and a senior vice president at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) where he holds the Billy and Audrey Wilder Chair in Neurosurgery.

He obtained his undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Harvard College in Neurobiology in 1988 and received his MD from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in 1992. He completed his neurosurgery residency at the program at Los Angeles County/University of Southern California in 1999 and his fellowship in pediatric neurosurgery at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in 2000. He served as the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York from 2000 to 2002, then joined the program at the USC and CHLA in 2002.

At CHLA, he served as the chief of the medical staff from 2011 to 2017 and the chief of neurosurgery from 2012 to 2020. He was appointed to chair of the Department of Surgery and surgeon-in-chief at CHLA in 2019 where he also serves as a senior vice president. He has been a trustee/director of CHLA since 2011 and is a member of the board of the Children’s Hospital Medical Group.

Dr. Krieger currently serves as a director of the American Board of Neurological Surgery. He is also a director of the American Board of Pediatric Neurosurgery. He is a past chair of the Joint Section of the AANS/CNS on Pediatric Neurological Surgery and served on the executive committee of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery.

He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics. He is a fellow of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the American College of Surgeons. He is board-certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery and the American Board of Pediatric Neurosurgery. He serves on the National Medical Advisory Board of the Make-a-Wish Foundation His research and clinical work focus on tumors of the brain and spine in children. He has authored more than 130 peer-review publications and has made over 280 national and international presentations.

How to participate

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How to get your Participation Certificate

After the presentation, return to this course to take the post-lecture quiz. The quiz will consist of information that was presented during the session and should not be difficult if you watched the presentation. Once you finish and pass the quiz, mark the course as complete. Your certificate will be available for download as a PDF file upon completion.

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