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Jeffrey Crawford

Jeffrey Crawford MD

Oncology, Internal Medicine, Hematopathology
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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Dr. Crawford is chief of medical oncology at Duke University Medical Center and associate director of clinical research at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Crawford has led many investigations of U.S. trials of cancer drugs, several of which led to FDA approval, with a focus on new agents in lung cancer and hematopoietic growth factors. He is editor-in-chief of Cancer Supportive Therapy and serves on several editorial boards of other cancer journals.

Dr. Crawford earned his bachelor's degree at Ohio Wesleyan University and his medical degree at Ohio State University. He was an intern, junior assistant resident and senior assistant resident at Duke from 1974-77, and hematology/oncology fellow at Duke from 1977-81. In 1978-79, Dr. Crawford was chief resident in medicine at Duke University/Veteran's Administration Medical Center, and later a geriatric fellow from 1979-82. In 2003, Duke honored Dr. Crawford with the Joseph Greenfield Research Faculty Award. This was on the heels of the Wayne Rundles Award for Excellence in Clinical Research that Duke bestowed upon him in 2002 and the Wendell Rosse Teaching Award in 2000.

In 2003, he earned membership in Alpha Omega Alpha. He currently holds several position s with the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, including chair of the Myeloid Growth Factor Committee and member of both the Clinical Trials Network Investigator Steering Committee and the Small Cell Lung Cancer Guidelines Committee. He also chairs committees for the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the Multinational Association of Supportive Care. Dr. Crawford has served as principal investigator for Cancer and Leukemia Group B clinical trials at Duke for more than a decade and is vice chair of the CALGB respiratory committee. In 2005, he was awarded the George Barth Geller, MD Professor for Research in Cancer.
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