Clifton Callaway

MD, PhD, FACEP, FAHA
Distinguished Professor and Executive Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine, Ronald D. Stewart Endowed Chair of Emergency Medicine Research

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.

He 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

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

Affiliations

Clinical and Translational Science Institute

Department of Emergency Medicine

Safar Center for Resuscitation Research

Post-Cardiac Arrest Service

Board Certifications

Emergency Medicine, American Board of Emergency Medicine

Education & Training

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

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