This profile is based on one written by Harold Amos, PhD, the program's original director, as part of his work for the program's 15th anniversary activities in 1998. The featured scholar was selected by the NPO as representative of the success of the program across different years, specialties, locations and with scholars of diverse backgrounds.

University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine (Birmingham, Ala.)
$152,500; January 1994 to December 1995
ID# 023230

University of Mississippi Medical Center (Jackson, Miss.)
$119,435; October 1994 to March 1996
ID# 024588

$163,006; April 1996 to March 1998
ID# 029176

Fellowship Research Topic
The Effects of the Hexosamine Biosynthesis Pathway and Glutamine: Fructose-6-Phosphate Aminotransferase on Glycogen Synthase Activity

Position as of February 2008

• Professor and Abraham Mitchell Chair, Department of Internal Medicine, University of South Alabama College of Medicine (Mobile, Ala.)

Profile
A native of Monroeville, Ala., Errol D. Crook, MD, received a B.A. in Chemical Engineering from Yale University in 1984. He received his MD from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1989. Returning to Alabama for postgraduate training, Crook completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (1989–92) where he also finished a Nephrology Fellowship (1992–94). During this time, he was awarded the MMFDP fellowship. Crook received a Career Development Award from the Veterans Administration in 1998. He used the award to pursue his research in glucose metabolism. In 2001, Crook was assistant professor both of medicine in the nephrology division and in physiology and biophysics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center as well as acting associate chief of staff in research and a staff physician at the Veteran's Administration Medical Center in Jackson, Miss.

Crook is a member of the American Federation for Medical Research, the American Society of Nephrology, the American Diabetes Association, the Endocrine Society, and the Mississippi Nephrologic Society. He is an associate editor of the journal Endocrinology and has served as president of the Mississippi Nephrologic Society. Crook is actively involved in the American College of Physicians, having served nationally as a member of the Council of Associates and the Ethics Committee and currently as a member of the Governor's Council for the Mississippi chapter, for which he coordinates associates' activities. He sat on the Medical Center Ethics Committee, the University Faculty Senate, the VA Research and Development Committee, and the University of Mississippi Department of Internal Medicine's Intern Selection Committee.