Faculty

Ralph Corey, MD - HYC Director | Christopher Woods, MD - HYC Co-Director | John Hamilton, MD
John Bartlett, MD | Nathan Thielman, MD | Vance Fowler, MD | David Walmer, MD
Carol Dukes Hamilton, MD | J. Brice Weinberg MD | Barth Reller MD | John Crump MD
Kathleen Clem, MD | Truls Ostbye, MD, PhD | Kathryn Whetten, PhD | Dennis Clements, MD, PhD
Cheryl Baker, MD

Staff

Cynthia Binanay, RN, BSN, MA - HYC Program Director | Cecelia Pezdek - Global Health Residency Program Coordinator | Carlee Reimer - HYC Program Assistant

John A. Crump, MD

Duke University Medical Center

Dr. Crump is an assistant professor of medicine with the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center. He has been based fulltime at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Moshi, Tanzania, since September, 2002, where he coordinates Duke's collaborative infectious diseases programs in Tanzania. He is a guest researcher with the National Center for Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). His position with the CDC includes work on enteric diseases and safe water interventions in Kenya and elsewhere. In addition, he is a senior lecturer at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical College, Tumaini University, Tanzania.

Dr. Crump graduated with an MB, ChB degree from the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand in 1993 and received a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1995. He is board-certified in internal medicine, infectious diseases, and medical microbiology. He graduated as a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of the U.K. in 1997, became a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1999, and a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasian in 2004. He completed his internship, residency, and fellowships in New Zealand, Australia, the U.K., South Africa, and the U.S. Dr. Crump is an alumnus of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) program, where he was based in the Foodborne and Diarrheal Disease Branch of the National Center for Infectious Diseases.

The Duke collaborative program in northern Tanzania focuses on HIV treatment and prevention and follows a 'research with service' model. Current activities include clinical trials of antiretroviral therapy, studies on HIV voluntary counseling and testing, descriptive studies of adult and pediatric inpatients and outpatients with HIV, HIV home-based-care clients, studies on antiretroviral therapy adherence and resistance, research on opportunistic infections, and the evaluation of health systems for HIV treatment and care delivery. Dr. Crump has many years of field experience in developing countries, including South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Egypt, and Uzbekistan. Dr. Crump is especially interested in HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, febrile illness in developing countries, enteric infections, and safe water interventions.