Bio
Dr. Crabbe is a Professor of Medicine and a member of the Temple Heart and Vascular Institute at Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. She is a graduate of Howard University College of Medicine where she received a Doctor of Medicine degree. She is a practicing cardiologist with over 20 years of experience in caring for patients who are high risk for cardiovascular disease. She is a recipient of research awards given through the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for the training of minority scientists. She has devoted her career toward advancing the knowledge and understanding of the importance of heart disease in the everyday lives of women and to reduce racial disparities in cardiovascular disease. To this end, she has worked within her institution and her local community in the development of programs, which help bridge the gap in cardiac health care for women through research, patient care, education, and advocacy. She has championed an agenda to develop effective programs focused on increasing awareness of CVD as a major health concern among at risk minority women in North Philadelphia, to educate health care providers on CVD prevention strategies for at risk minority women, and to increase access to clinical trials that study cardiovascular conditions that disproportionately effect African Americans and women. She serves as the Director for Womenheart, Philadelphia and serves as the Project Lead on the PCORI funded project.
