[1] As a senior postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins, Crews was selected as a 2010-2014 Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program scholar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Early in her career she used data from Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Lifespan Study to investigate why African Americans with incomes below the poverty line have a significantly higher risk of chronic kidney disease than their white counterparts.
[5] She then collaborated with L. Ebony Boulware to develop interventions and strategies to improve dietary choices in the African-American population to help prevent chronic kidney disease.
[13] In further recognition of her work, Crews received Johns Hopkins President's Frontier Award as someone who is "poised to break new ground and be leaders in their fields.
[15] She also sat on a task force that recommended U.S. laboratories discontinue a long-standing clinical standard that factors a patient's race into kidney function tests.