Deidra Crews, MD

Professional Titles

• Deputy Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity
• Associate Director for Faculty Development, Division of Nephrology

Primary Academic Title

Professor of Medicine

Background

Centers and Institutes

• Aging and Health, Center on
• Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research

X (Twitter)

https://twitter.com/drdeidracrews

Lab Website

Deidra Crews Lab

• Dr. Crews' team focuses on health disparities in chronic kidney disease. We have studied how social determinants of health, such as poverty and healthful food access, affect disparities in kidney disease outcomes. Our research on end-stage renal disease includes studies of the best timing and environment to initiate dialysis among vulnerable populations.

Google Scholar

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wY9BWM0AAAAJ&hl=en

PubMed

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=deidra+crews+OR+crews+dc

Selected Publications

• 1. Tanjala S Purnell; Priscilla Auguste; Deidra C Crews; Julio Lamprea-Montealegre; Temitope Olufade; Raquel Greer; Patti Ephraim; Johanna Sheu; Daniel Kostecki; Neil R Powe; et al. Comparison of life participation activities among adults treated by hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and kidney transplantation: a systematic review. American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2013;62(5):953-73. 2013 
  2. Deidra C Crews; Teresa Pfaff; Neil R Powe; Socioeconomic factors and racial disparities in kidney disease outcomes. Seminars in nephrology 2013;33(5):468-75. 2013 
  3. Nicole DePasquale; Patti L Ephraim; Jessica Ameling; Lapricia Lewis-Boyér; Deidra C Crews; Raquel C Greer; Hamid Rabb; Neil R Powe; Bernard G Jaar; Luis Gimenez; et al. Selecting renal replacement therapies: what do African American and non-African American patients and their families think others should know? A mixed methods study. BMC nephrology 2013;14():9. 2013 
  4. Raquel C Greer; Deidra C Crews; L Ebony Boulware; Challenges perceived by primary care providers to educating patients about chronic kidney disease. Journal of renal care 2012;38(4):174-81. 2012 
  5. Deidra C Crews; William M McClellan; David A Shoham; Liyan Gao; David G Warnock; Suzanne Judd; Paul Muntner; Edgar R Miller; Neil R Powe; Low income and albuminuria among REGARDS (Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke) study participants. American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2012;60(5):779-86. 2012 
  6. Johanna Sheu; Patti L Ephraim; Neil R Powe; Hamid Rabb; Mikiko Senga; Kira E Evans; Bernard G Jaar; Deidra C Crews; Raquel C Greer; L Ebony Boulware; African American and non-African American patients' and families' decision making about renal replacement therapies. Qualitative health research 2012;22(7):997-1006. 2012 
  7. Deidra C Crews; Raquel C Greer; Jeffrey J Fadrowski; Michael J Choi; David Doggett; Jodi B Segal; Kemi A Fawole; Pammie R Crawford; L Ebony Boulware; Setting an agenda for comparative effectiveness systematic reviews in CKD care. BMC nephrology 2012;13():74. 2012
  8. Patti L Ephraim; Neil R Powe; Hamid Rabb; Jessica Ameling; Priscilla Auguste; LaPricia Lewis-Boyer; Raquel C Greer; Deidra C Crews; Tanjala S Purnell; Bernard G Jaar; et al. The providing resources to enhance African American patients' readiness to make decisions about kidney disease (PREPARED) study: protocol of a randomized controlled trial. BMC nephrology 2012;13():135. 2012 
  9. Jessica M Ameling; Priscilla Auguste; Patti L Ephraim; LaPricia Lewis-Boyer; Nicole DePasquale; Raquel C Greer; Deidra C Crews; Neil R Powe; Hamid Rabb; L Ebony Boulware; Development of a decision aid to inform patients' and families' renal replacement therapy selection decisions. BMC medical informatics and decision making 2012;12():140. 2012 
  10. L Ebony Boulware; Navdeep Tangri; Patti L Ephraim; Julia J Scialla; Stephen M Sozio; Deidra C Crews; Tariq Shafi; Dana C Miskulin; Jiannong Liu; Wendy St Peter; et al. Comparative effectiveness studies to improve clinical outcomes in end stage renal disease: the DEcIDE patient outcomes in end stage renal disease study. BMC nephrology 2012;13():167. 2012 
  11. Deidra C Crews; Stephen M Sozio; Yongmei Liu; Josef Coresh; Neil R Powe; Inflammation and the paradox of racial differences in dialysis survival. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2011;22(12):2279-86. 2011 
  12. Deidra C Crews; L Ebony Boulware; Ron T Gansevoort; Bernard G Jaar; Albuminuria: is it time to screen the general population? Advances in chronic kidney disease 2011;18(4):249-57. 2011 
  13. Raquel C Greer; Lisa A Cooper; Deidra C Crews; Neil R Powe; L Ebony Boulware; Quality of patient-physician discussions about CKD in primary care: a cross-sectional study. American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2011;57(4):583-91. 2011 
  14. Vanessa Grubbs; Laura C Plantinga; Deidra C Crews; Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo; Rajiv Saran; Michael Heung; Priti R Patel; Nilka Ríos Burrows; Kristina L Ernst; Neil R Powe; et al. Vulnerable populations and the association between periodontal and chronic kidney disease. Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2011;6(4):711-7. 2011 
  15. Laura C Plantinga; Kirsten Johansen; Deidra C Crews; Vahakn B Shahinian; Bruce M Robinson; Rajiv Saran; Nilka Ríos Burrows; Desmond E Williams; Neil R Powe; Association of CKD with disability in the United States. American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2011;57(2):212-27. 2011 
  16. Deidra C Crews; Neil R Powe; Blood pressure and mortality among ESRD patients: all patients are not created equal. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2010;21(11):1816-8. 2010 
  17. Daniel J Brotman; Lori D Bash; Rehan Qayyum; Deidra Crews; Eric A Whitsel; Brad C Astor; Josef Coresh; Heart rate variability predicts ESRD and CKD-related hospitalization. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2010;21(9):1560-70. 2010 
  18. Rita Rastogi Kalyani; Brady Stein; Ritu Valiyil; Rebecca Manno; Janet W Maynard; Deidra C Crews; Vitamin D treatment for the prevention of falls in older adults: systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2010;58(7):1299-310. 2010 
  19. Deidra C Crews; Raquel F Charles; Michele K Evans; Alan B Zonderman; Neil R Powe; Poverty, race, and CKD in a racially and socioeconomically diverse urban population. American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2010;55(6):992-1000. 2010 
  20. Deidra C Crews; Laura C Plantinga; Edgar R Miller; Rajiv Saran; Elizabeth Hedgeman; Sharon H Saydah; Desmond E Williams; Neil R Powe; Prevalence of chronic kidney disease in persons with undiagnosed or prehypertension in the United States. Hypertension 2010;55(5):1102-9. 2010 
  21. Laura C Plantinga; Deidra C Crews; Josef Coresh; Edgar R Miller; Rajiv Saran; Jerry Yee; Elizabeth Hedgeman; Meda Pavkov; Mark S Eberhardt; Desmond E Williams; et al. Prevalence of chronic kidney disease in US adults with undiagnosed diabetes or prediabetes. Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2010;5(4):673-82. 2010 
  22. Deidra C Crews; Bernard G Jaar; Laura C Plantinga; Hania S Kassem; Nancy E Fink; Neil R Powe; Inpatient hemodialysis initiation: reasons, risk factors and outcomes. Nephron. Clinical practice 2010;114(1):c19-28. 2010  
  23. Bernard G Jaar; Laura C Plantinga; Deidra C Crews; Nancy E Fink; Nasser Hebah; Josef Coresh; Alan S Kliger; Neil R Powe; Timing, causes, predictors and prognosis of switching from peritoneal dialysis to hemodialysis: a prospective study. BMC nephrology 2009;10():3. 2009 
  24. Deidra C Crews; Bernard G Jaar; Racial differences in chronic kidney disease incidence and progression among individuals with HIV. Nature clinical practice. Nephrology 2008;4(12):652-3. 2008 

Honors

• Elected Member, American Society for Clinical Investigation
• Mastership, American College of Physicians, 10/1/21
• W. Lester Henry Award for Diversity and Access to Care, American College of Physicians, 4/7/19
• Distinguished Leader Award, American Society of Nephrology, 1/1/19
• President's Frontier Award, Johns Hopkins University, 1/31/18
• Frederick L. Brancati Excellence in Mentoring Award, Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine, 3/1/16
• Ernest Everett Just Award in Medical and Public Health Research on African American Health and Quality of Life, 1/1/13
• Clinical Research Award, National Kidney Foundation (NKF) of Maryland Annual Scientific Session, 1/1/13
• Community & Patient Services Committee "All-Star" Award, NKF of Maryland, 1/1/13
• President's Research Recognition Award, Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute, 1/1/12
• Super Doctors Washington, The Washington Post Magazine, 1/1/12
• W. Leigh Thompson Excellence in Research Award, Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine, 1/1/11
• Clinical Science Research Award, Marco Cabrera Poster Session of the Network of Minority Research Investigators, 1/1/10
• First Place, Clinical Science, National Kidney Foundation Young Investigators' Forum, 1/1/09

Memberships

• American Society of Nephrology
• American College of Physicians
• National Kidney Foundation