phone: (503) 494-8902
fax: (503) 494-8905
email: kratochv@ohsu.edu
Jim is an associate professor at Oregon Health Sciences University,
School of Dentistry, where he is Chairman of the Department of Pathology.
He also serves on the faculty of the School of Medicine in the Department
of Pathology. He is director of the OHSU Oral Pathology Biopsy Service
and has an active practice seeing clinical oral pathology patients.
Jim attended Georgetown University School of Dentistry under the
Navy dental scholarship program and graduated in 1976. Following
a general practice residency at the Naval Medical Center at San
Diego, he served as a general dentist on an aircraft carrier and
then at a dental clinic at Yokosuka, Japan. Jim completed an oral
pathology residency at Emory in 1982 and then an additional year
of anatomic pathology training at the National Naval Medical Center.
Jim has twice been assigned as a staff pathologist at the Armed
Forces Institute of Pathology and three times at the Naval Dental
School, Bethesda, MD. He was Chairman of the Oral Pathology Department
at the Naval Dental School and director of the oral pathology residency
program. He retired from the Navy in 1995.
Jim has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial
Pathology since 1982 and a Diplomate of the Board since 1985. His
interests are in surgical oral pathology and he has published a
number of papers and book chapters on this and other subjects in
a variety of medical and dental publications.
Jim lives in Lake Oswego, Oregon with his wife Nancy, their four
children, and a Newfoundland dog. His hobbies include competitive
rowing, amateur radio, trying to resurrect a '70 Landcruiser, and
brewing beer.
