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Dr. John R. Crouse, III, is professor of medicine and public health sciences and is currently associate director of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSM) General Clinical Research Center. He is a past recipient of the Preventive Cardiology Academic Award from NHLBI and director of the Wake Forest University Preventive Cardiology Program. The Preventive Cardiology Program involves clinical activities (the Clinical Lipid Center, a tertiary referral clinic for difficult to manage dyslipidemia patients), research, and teaching. Research interests include lipids, nutrition, and interrelationships of atherosclerosis of  and risk factors for cerebrovascular, peripheral vascular, an coronary artery disease.

Dr. Crouse's important academic contributions include establishment of use of B-mode ultrasound for quantification of subclinical atherosclerosis in epidemiologic studies and clinical trials, and identification of statin treatment as a means of reducing risk of stroke.

His current NIH-funded research includes a clinical trial to test the hypothesis that treatment with azithromycin reduces the risk of coronary heart disease; a study to test the hypothesis that impairment of vascular function identifies older individuals at increased risk of coronary heart disease; and an epidemiologic evaluation of interassociations between indices of arterial structure and function in patients with defined coronary status.

Dr. Crouse received his MD from State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center. He was an internal medicine resident at New York Hospital and a New York Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellow at The Rockefeller University in New York