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Dr. Sheila Crowe is a professor in the division of gastroenterology and hepatology at the University of Virginia (UVA) in Chalottesville. She received her medical degree from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and completed postgraduate training in internal medicine and gastroenterology at McMaster University. After additional research training in the Intestinal Diseases Research Unit at McMaster University and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, she joined the faculty at McMaster University before moving to the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston in 1992. She has been at the University of Virginia since 2001.

As a clinician-scientist, Dr. Crowe has been active in bench research, clinical care, and teaching. She has served as a medical advisor for local disease support groups, including the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America and celiac disease support groups. Dr. Crowe was the GI Fellowship Training Director from 1994 to 1998 at UTMB, and currently she is a member of the Committee on Residency Education and the Intern Selection Committee for the Department of Medicine at UVA. Dr. Crowe has been active in the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), previously serving as a member of the AGA Research Committee, the AGA Education Committee, and as an elected member of the 2004-2005 AGA Nominating Committee. She is a spokesperson for the AGA and she serves on the AGA Women's Committee, AGA Leadership Cabinet, and AGA Council, representing the Esophageal, Gastric, and Duodenal Disorders section from 2001-2005 and currently, as the AGA Council Chair. She is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, the American College of Physicians, the American College of Gastroenterology, and the AGA.

Dr. Crowe recently completed a 4-year term as a member of the Clinical and Integrative Gastrointestinal Pathobiology National Institutes of Health Study Section and serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Physiology: Gastrointestinal and Liver, and Mucosal Immunology. Her research centers on understanding immune-epithelial interactions involved in inflammatory, infectious, and allergic gastrointestinal diseases including Helicobacter pylori infection. She has received various research grants and career awards including ongoing funding from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to examine the role of oxidative stress in the gastric mucosa as a mediator of gastric epithelial injury. She recently was awarded the AGA 2008 Funderburg Award for her research relevant to gastric cancer and named as a 2008 Outstanding AGA Woman in Science. Dr. Crowe is the author of various articles and book chapters. She is included in the Best Doctors in America database, and is invited often to lecture nationally and internationally in the areas of her expertise.