James Crawford, , is chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and senior vice President for laboratory services, in the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System.  This integrated 15-hospital system serves the Long Island, Queens, and Staten Island portion of the greater New York metropolitan area.  For that purpose, Crawford is also professor and founding chair of the Department of Pathology for the new Hofstra University School of Medicine, slated for matriculating its first students in July 2011.Crawford earned his bachelors degree from Dartmouth College and his medical and PhD degrees from Duke University. After interning in pathology at Duke University Medical Center he trained as an anatomic pathology resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, including a fellowship in gastrointestinal pathology; he also served as a Liver Pathology Research Fellow at the Royal Free Hospital in London.  He has served as a faculty member in the Department of Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, was associate professor and director of the Program in Gastrointestinal Pathology at Yale University School of Medicine, and served as professor and chair of the Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine.Crawford is well known as a liver pathologist and for his research in hepatobiliary pathophysiology.  In more recent years he has served as e-Editor-in-chief of Laboratory Investigation, president of the Association of Pathology Chairs, and chair of the Board of Directors for the College of American Pathologists’ Political Action Committee.  He is currently chair-elect of the Council of Academic Societies of the Association of American Colleges, and is a member of the AAMC Board of Directors