Clifton Callaway, MD, PhD, FACEP, FAHA, is a distinguished professor and the executive vice chair of emergency medicine, and the Ronald D. Stewart Endowed Chair of emergency medicine research at the University of Pittsburgh. He serves as the co-director of the University of Pittsburgh emergency care research fellowship, associate director of cardiopulmonary arrest research at the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research and director of pilot funding for the University of Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Science Institute. Dr. Callaway is an emergency physician at UPMC and founding member of the University of Pittsburgh Post-Cardic Arrest Service.
An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, Dr. Callaway is an internationally recognized expert in resuscitation research and clinical trials with over 450 peer-reviewed articles and chapters. His research support has come from NINDS, NHLBI, AHA, and NASA. His current research focuses on resuscitation medicine with emphasis on brain injury after cardiac arrest and translational research on the topic of resuscitation from sudden death. He has collaborated with pre-hospital care providers and emergency physicians to study acute cardiac interventions, developed a platform to study intensive care interventions, and worked with partners in rehabilitation to study neurological and functional outcomes after cardiac arrest. His work in pre-hospital care has led to international guidelines for acute monitoring and regionalization of care. He is now studying pharmacology of sleep and central control of metabolic rate in early phase clinical studies.
Dr. Callaway is past chair of the American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee and past co-chair of the ILCOR Advanced Life Support Committee. He has contributed to advanced cardiac life support guidelines since 2008, particularly on post-cardiac arrest care. He has conducted numerous trials in resuscitation as one of the investigators in the Resuscitations Outcome Consortium (ROC) and in the Neurological Emergencies Treatment Trial (NETT) network. Currently, he helps lead the clinical coordinating center for SIREN, an National Institutes of Health emergency research trial network of over 75 medical centers conducting clinical trials in traumatic brain injury, adult, and pediatric cardiac arrest.
Dr. Callaway completed his undergraduate degree at Harvard College before earning his medical degree and PhD in neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego. He completed his residency in emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh before joining the faculty.
Areas of Interest
Brain injury after cardiac arrest, central control of metabolic rate, methodological challenges of clinical trials in acute care, post-cardiac arrest care, resuscitation research, sleep pharmacology.
Affiliations
Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Department of Emergency Medicine
Fellowship in Emergency Care Research
Post-Cardiac Arrest Service
Safar Center for Resuscitation Research
Space Biomedicine Program
Board Certifications
Emergency Medicine - American Board of Emergency Medicine
Education & Training
Residency in Emergency Medicine - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
MD - University of California, San Diego - San Diego, CA
PhD - University of California, San Diego - San Diego, CA
BA - Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
