Executive Leadership & Expert Bios

John E. Crews, DPA

Epidemiologist, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities

 

John E. Crews, DPA, is the Lead Epidemiologist with the Disability and Health Branch in the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Crews′ specialties are vision impairment and aging and caregiving and disability; his research interests also include health disparities among people with disabilities and aging with a disability.

Dr. Crews has over thirty years of experience in vision rehabilitation and disability research. He managed a clinical program for older people with visual impairments in Michigan between 1977 and 1992. He then became the Acting Director of the Rehabilitation Research and Development Center on Aging at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Atlanta. After that, he served as the Executive Director of the Georgia Governor′s Council on Developmental Disabilities. In 1998, he joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

Dr. Crews received his BA from Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana. He received two Master of Arts degrees, one MA from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and another MA from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He received his DPA from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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