February 5, 2001
Crabb to lead IU Department of Medicine
INDIANAPOLIS -- David W. Crabb, M.D., has been named chairman of the IU Department of Medicine, the largest department at the Indiana University School of Medicine. The announcement was made Feb. 1 by Dean D. Craig Brater, M.D.
Dr.
Crabb served as interim chair after Dr. Brater resigned the position to
assume the duties of dean in July 2000. As chairman, Dr. Crabb will oversee
the scientific and clinical activities of 290 physicians and researchers,
and the education of more than 150 internal medicine and medicine-pediatrics
residents.
Dr. Crabb served as vice chairman for research in the Department of Medicine from 1993-2000 and as the School's assistant dean for research in 1999-2000. He joined the faculty in 1983 as an assistant professor of medicine and of biochemistry and was named a full professor in 1990. He also served as director of the Wishard Memorial Hospital Section of Gastroenterology from 1993 to 1997.
Dr. Crabb graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Purdue University in 1974 with a bachelor's degree in biology and received his medical degree from IU in 1978. He did his residency at IUSM and was chief resident of internal medicine in 1982-83. He completed a fellowship in gastroenterology at IUSM in 1982.
Dr. Crabb received the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1989.
The primary research interest of his laboratory group is the metabolism of alcohol and genetic components of alcoholism. He was the recipient of a MERIT award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the Young Investigator Awards from the Central Society of Clinical Research and the Research Society on Alcoholism.
He is married and has two daughters.
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