Dr. Crawford was a Clinical Professor of Medicine in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at UCSD until 2001, when he resigned to join the United States Navy. He served as a Commander in the Medical Corps including service in North Persian Gulf during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Dr. Crawford is also a Certified Professional in Healthcare Risk Management (CPHRM) by the American Hospital Association, and had served as a Physician Advisor to Risk Management/Patient Safety at Naval Medical Center San Diego 2003-2005. His previous experience includes serving as Critical Care Director at the world renowned Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle for 12 years, and Sixteen years experience with organ transplantation (bone marrow and lung).

Administratively, he has served on numerous committees including as Chairman of a large Institutional Review Board at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for over 7 years, Co-chairman of the Comprehensive Working Group on Informed Consent in Cancer Clinical Trials., the Joint committee of the National Cancer Institutes, Federal Drug Administration, and Office for the Protection of Research Risks. (1995-1998), Consultant to the federal Office for the Protection of Research Risks: "Establishing, Maintaining, and Using Data from Repositories" (1995) and has been a Member of Ethics Committees for several local institutions and international medical societies. Dr. Crawford has extensive international speaking experience and a significant publication record which includes 19 book chapters.   

Selected Bibliography

1. Keenan HT, Bratton SL, Martin LD, Crawford SW, Weiss NS . Outcome of children who require mechanical ventilation following bone marrow transplantation. Crit Care Med 2000; 28:830-835.
2. Colt HG, Crawford SW, Galbraith O. Virtual reality bronchoscopy simulation: A revolution in procedural training. Chest 2001; 120:1333-1339.
3. Crawford SW, Colt HG. Virtual reality and written assessment are of potential value to determine knowledge and skill in flexible bronchoscopy. Respiration 2004;71: 269-275.
4. Kotloff RM, Ahya VN, Crawford SW. State of the Art: Pulmonary complications of organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Amer J Respir Criti Care Med 2004;170: 22-48.
5. Watkins TR, Chien JW, Crawford SW . Graft versus host associated pulmonary disease and other idiopathic pulmonary complications after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Semin Respir Crit Care Med, 26:482-489; 2005.
6. Crawford, SW . Teaching and learning bronchoscopy in the ICU. Critical Care Alerts (in press).

Selected Book Chapters

1. Weil JV, Crawford SW, Bromberg P: Pulmonary Complications of Hematologic Disease. In: Murray JF, Nadel JA, Mason RJ, Boushay HA, Eds. Textbook of Respiratory Medicine. WB Saunders, Co., Orlando, FL. 2000; 2285-2308.
2. Rubenfeld GD, Crawford SW. Principles and practice of withdrawing life-sustaining treatment in the ICU. Curtis JR, Rubenfeld GD (eds), Managing Death in the Intensive Care Unit: The Transition from Cure to Comfort. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 27-148.
3. Crawford SW. Respiratory Infections in Immunocompromised Neutropenic Patients. In: Rello J, Vallés J, Kollef M, Eds. Critical Care Infectious Diseases Textbook. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA . 2001; 667-676.
4. Crawford SW: Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. In: Albert RK, Spiro S, Jett J, Eds. Principles of Respiratory Medicine. Mosby International, Inc. London (in press).
5. Crawford SW, Sullivan KM, Folz R: Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplantation and Graft-versus-Host Disease. In: Hall JB, Schmidt GA, Wood LDH, eds., Principles of Critical Care Medicine. McGraw-Hill, New York (in press).