Peter A. Crawford serves as CTSI’s Deputy Director and also directs CTSI’s Clinical Translational Research Services (CTRS) core. As Deputy Director, he has oversight for CTSI’s Office of Discovery and Translation (ODAT) and works closely with CTSI’s executive leadership team to oversee the institute’s operations and achieve excellence in clinical research. He is also a Professor and the Vice Dean for Research at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He also serves as the
director for the Department of Medicine’s Division of Molecular Medicine. He received his MD and PhD from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where he also completed an Internal Medicine Residency and Clinical Cardiology and Postdoctoral Fellowships. He joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota in 2017 and served as vice chair for research in the
Department of Medicine from 2018 to 2023.
