Dr. Callaway is a physician-scientist with research efforts centered on improving brain injury after cardiac arrest. The core of this research has been that post-arrest patients require a multidisciplinary, multiorgan, and personalized approach. He has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and multiple foundations. Specific research projects have included studies on biochemical events in brain after ischemia-reperfusion, mechanisms for the effects of temperature manipulation, quantitative measures of ECG organization, prognostication of coma after cardiac arrest, and methodological challenges for clinical trials in critical illness.
Dr. Callaway has conducted trials in resuscitation as one of the investigators in the Resuscitations Outcome Consortium (ROC) and in the Neurological Emergencies Treatment Trial (NETT) network. He helps lead the clinical coordinating center for SIREN, an National Institutes of Health emergency research trial network of over 75 medical centers designated to conduct clinical trials in acute care. Current SIREN clinical trials test treatments for traumatic brain injury, adult and pediatric cardiac arrest.
Dr. Callaway is past chair of the AHA Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee (2015-2017), and past co-chair of the ILCOR Advanced Life Support Committee (2012-2016). He has contributed to advanced cardiac life support guidelines since 2008, particularly on post-cadiac arrest care.
- Academic & Clinical Titles
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Associate Director of Cardiopulmonary Arrest Research, University of Pittsburgh Safar Center for Resuscitation Research
Attending Emergency Physician, UPMC
Attending Physician, University of Pittsburgh Post-Cardiac Arrest Service
Director of Pilot Funding, University of Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Distinguished Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Executive Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Ronald D. Stewart Endowed Chair of Emergency Medicine Research, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
- Board Certifications
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Emergency Medicine, American Board of Emergency Medicine
- Education & Training
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Residency
Emergency Medicine - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Medical School
MD - University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
Graduate School
PhD - University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
College
BA - Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
- Publications
