Michael Crouch

Dr. Michael Crouch, FASHP, became dean of the College of Pharmacy at Mercer University on Jan. 6, 2026. He came to Mercer from Samford University, where since 2014 he served as the Fred E. McWhorter dean and professor at the McWhorter School of Pharmacy. Prior that, Dr. Crouch held several faculty and leadership positions at Virginia Commonwealth University, South University and East Tennessee State University, including department chair, executive associate dean and director of interprofessional education.

A third-generation pharmacist, Dr. Crouch has earned numerous teaching awards and obtained board certification in pharmacotherapy in 1996, with added qualifications in cardiology in 2000. In 2009, he was named a Fellow of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

He earned a Bachelor of Science in pharmacy from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and completed his first-year pharmacy residency at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Dr. Crouch earned his Doctor of Pharmacy degree, participated in a cardiovascular summer research fellowship and completed a second-year cardiology-focused residency at the Medical University of South Carolina. He also participated in the Institute for Management and Leadership in Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education and earned a Master of Business Administration from Samford’s Brock School of Business.

Dr. Crouch has been inducted into Phi Lambda Sigma (pharmacy leadership), Rho Chi (pharmacy academic), Beta Gamma Sigma (business academic), Phi Kappa Phi (national academic), and Omicron Delta Kappa (national leadership).