My Biography

Class Year: 1967
Name: Bill Crump - (Email)
Bio:      I was fortunate to be in the top ten percent of the Senior Class at MHS. I graduated cum laude with a B.A. in chemistry from David Lipscomb College in 1971 and received an M.D. degree in 1974 from the University of TN Health Science Center in Memphis, where I was a C.M. Gooch Scholar. After an internship in 1975 at the City of Memphis Hospitals, I did two years of an OB/GYN residency in Knoxville (1976-78), then changed to a pathology residency at UT in Memphis (1978-80) and the University of Alabama Medical Center in Birmingham (1980-82).
     With this training, I entered private practice pathology at Reference Pathology Laboratory in Nashville from 1982 to 1985. During this time, I was also a pathologist at University Medical Center in Lebanon, TN, Allied Clinical Labs in Chattanooga, and Bolivar Co. Hospital in Cleveland, MS.
     In 1986, I became board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology from the American Board of Pathology and then became Medical Director for Roche Biomedical Labs in Monroe, LA, from 1986 to 1989.
     I took a fellowship in Hematopathology at Loyola University of Chicago (1989-90) which led to Special Qualification in Hematology from the American Board of Pathology, after which I returned to Reference Pathology Labs in Nashville from 1990 until my retirement in 1995.
     After retiring from medicine, I became an author with McFarland Publishers. I currently have two books in print: "The Christmas Encyclopedia" (two editions, 2001 and 2006, with a third edition scheduled for publication in 2013) and "Encyclopedia of New Year's Holidays Worldwide" (2008), both of which are available at Amazon.com. I currently spend time researching new material for the forthcoming third edition.

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