John Richard Crout

Background

Crout, John Richard was born on December 30, 1929 in Portland, Oregon, United States. Son of John Shaw and Georgia (Jacobs) Crout.

Education

AB, Oberlin College, 1951; Doctor of Medicine, Northwestern University, 1955; Master of Science, Northwestern University, 1956; DMed (honorary), University Uppsala, Sweden, 1977.

Career

Intern, Passavant Memorial Hospital, Chicago, 1955-1956; assistant resident in internal medicine, VA Research Hospital, Chicago, 1956-1957; clinical associate, National Heart Institute, Bethesda, Maryland., 1957-1960; assistant resident in Medicine, New York University-Bellevue Medical Center, New York City, 1960-1961; United States Public Health Service fellow, instructor pharmacology, Harvard University, 1961-1963; assistant professor pharmacology and internal medicine, University Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, 1963-1965; associate professor, University Texas Southwestern Medical School, 1965-1970; professor pharmacology and medicine, Michigan State University, 1970-1971; deputy director Bureau Drugs, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Maryland., 1971-1972; director office science evaluation Bureau Drugs, Food and Drug Administration, 1972-1973; director Bureau Drugs, Food and Drug Administration, 1973-1982; director Office of Medical Applications of Research, National Institutes of Health, 1982-1984; vice president medical and science affairs, Boehringer Mannheim Pharmaceuticals, 1984-1994; scholar in residence, Institute Medicine, 1994-1995; president, Crout Cons., Bethesda, since 1994. Member drug research board NAS-National Research Council. Consultant World Health Organization, 1974-1984.

Trustee United States Pharmacopeia, 1985-1995. Member committees Institute Medicine, 1990, 92, 93. Member board Genetics Institute, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1994-1996.

Board directors GelTex Pharmaceutical, Waltham, Massachusetts, Trimeris, Durham, North Carolina, Genelabs Technologies, Redwood City, California.

Achievements

• John Richard Crout has been listed as a noteworthy Physician, pharmaceutical researcher by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served to senior assistant surgeon United States Public Health Service, 1957-1960. Assistant surgeon general 1976-1984. Fellow American College of Physicians.

Member American Federation Clinical Research, American Society Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, American Society Clinical Investigation, American Society Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Heart Association, Society Clinical Trials, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha.

Connections

Married Carol Jean Keith, June 19, 1954. Children: Linda Jane, Keith Richard, Andrew Richard.

Father:

John Shaw Crout

Mother:

Georgia (Jacobs) Crout

Spouse:

Carol Jean Keith

child:

Andrew Richard Crout

child:

Linda Jane Crout

child:

Keith Richard Crout