John R. Crouch, Jr., M.D.

Dr. John Crouch, born in Illinois, in the U.S.A., is currently the Executive Director of IHI, International, and President of Good Samaritan Health Services, Inc.

Dr. Crouch attended Southern Illinois University and the University of Illinois, Urbana, finishing in 1963. He continued his education in medical school at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, and completed an internship at St. Luke’s Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. He completed family medicine residency in one of the original family medicine programs in the USA at San Bernardino County Medical Center in California and immediately became Faculty and Associate Residency Director and Director of the Emergency Department. Dr. Crouch has had a variety of experiences in his medical career, including a tour as a Medical Officer and a Battalion Flight Surgeon for the U.S. Army in Viet Nam, where he received the Bronze Star and Air Medal awards.

Dr. Crouch went on to practice emergency medicine and family medicine in San Bernardino, where he held various positions of instruction and administration, including Adjunct Assistant Professor in the UCLA School of Medicine and Director of one of the oldest and largest family medicine programs in the U.S. He then moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, with his family in 1978, joining ORU School of Medicine, holding the positions of Residency Director, Director of International Medicine, and Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine until 1990. When the ORU school closed, he joined with other physicians to form Family Medical Care of Tulsa and IHI Family Medicine Residency Program. He has served on numerous committees and boards for Family Medicine and other health care and community concerns at the local and state level.

In addition, Dr. Crouch led IHI, Inc., to join with Cornerstone Assistance Network to become co-founders of Good Samaritan Health Services, Inc., an outreach providing accessible, affordable, whole-person care to the underserved in the Tulsa community, which has become a model program. Dr. Crouch is currently the President of this organization.

Dr. Crouch was named the Oklahoma Family Physician of the Year in 2001. He was also named Educator of the Year for the 18,000 member CMDA organization in 2002.

For over ten years, Dr. Crouch’s vision has been to train and enable resident physicians in training to travel overseas on short-term international medical trips and to encourage long-term overseas service to multiple countries. At the end of this next year, twenty graduates of IHI Family Medicine will be serving long-term in locations around the world. He continues to work on establishing residency programs overseas in several countries.