Leonard Crowley

Leonard Crowley is an experienced physician and educator based in the Minnesota twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. He has a broad background in both the practice of medicine and the education of nursing students and undergraduate students in allied health professions, as well as medical students and graduate students in health related professions. Dr. Crowley received a M.Sc. degree from Ohio State University and an M.D. degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine. Following graduation he received additional training at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Presbyterian Hospital in New York, and at Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio. He has held faculty appointments in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Vermont and Ohio State University, and in the Department of Family Practice and Community Health at the University of Minnesota. He is an honorary staff physician at Fairview University Medical Center in Minneapolis, and his current faculty appointments are in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Minnesota Medical School, and in the Biology Department at Century College where he is actively involved in teaching nursing and allied health students. His special interest in undergraduate teaching dates back to his early experience teaching nursing students at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York when he was a resident physician in the Department of Pathology, and he has continued to combine his interest in undergraduate teaching with his medical practice throughout his professional career. Dr. Crowley is the author of several peer reviewed articles in medical and scientific journals. In addition to his popular Introduction to Human Disease now in a sixth edition, he has also written clinically oriented textbooks in Anatomy and Physiology and in Clinical Embryology for nursing and allied health students, as well as laboratory manuals and study guides related to human disease, microbiology, and anatomy-physiology.