John K. Crane care for patients who are hospitalized at Erie County Medical Center where he also serve as the hospital epidemiologist addressing infection control. He teach medical students, residents, and fellows in both hospital and classroom settings. In UB’s schools of medicine and dentistry, he teach a variety of topics including microbiology, pharmacology and toxicology, oral biology, and gastrointestinal systems, host defenses, and global health. Education and Training: Fellowship, Infectious Diseases, University of Virginia (1990); Residency, Medicine, University of Rochester, Strong Memorial Hospital (1987); MD, MD, University of Virginia (1984); PhD, Pharmacology, University of Virginia (1983). Associate Professor, Medicine, University at Buffalo (1994-present). He is a Co-Medical Director, with Dr. Ryosuke Osawa, of the Erie County TB Clinic. He is interested in international medicine and global health and participate in an annual medical mission trip to Honduras, a trip in which student volunteers are encouraged to participate. He is conduct laboratory research on diarrhea-producing strains of E. coli bacteria. My lab focuses on enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC), Shiga-toxigenic E. coli (STEC, aka EHEC) and enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC). Recently he have discovered that zinc can inhibit the development of resistance to antibiotics in Escherichia coli and other bacteria.

Infectious Disease; Microbial Pathogenesis; Vitamins and Trace Nutrient