Dr. Callaway is a physician-scientist and 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.
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
- 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
