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Robert Califf

Dr. Robert M. Califf was born in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1951. He was a member of the 1969 AAAA South Carolina Championship Basketball team.

He graduated from Duke University, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, in 1973 and from Duke University Medical School in 1978, where he was selected for Alpha Omega Alpha. He performed his internship and residency at the University of California at San Francisco and his fellowship in Cardiology at Duke University. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine (1984) and Cardiology (1986) and is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (1988).

He is currently Associate Vice Chancellor for Clinical Research, Director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), and Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, at the Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC. He has served as an editor for the first and second editions of the landmark textbook, Acute Coronary Care, published by Mosby, Inc., and is the Editor-in Chief of Mosby’s American Heart Journal. He is a section editor for the Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine and has been an author or coauthor of more than 600 peer-reviewed journal articles. He is a contributing editor for theheart.org, an online information resource for academic and practicing cardiologists.

Dr. Califf has led the DCRI efforts for many of the best-known clinical trials in cardiovascular disease. With his colleagues from the Duke Databank for Cardiovascular Disease, he has written extensively about clinical and economic outcomes in chronic heart disease. He is considered an international leader in the fields of health outcomes, quality of care, and medical economics. The DCRI has an annual budget of over $90 million more than 700 employees, with extensive global collaborations with government agencies, the medical-products industry, and academic partners.

He has served on the Cardiorenal Advisory Panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Pharmaceutical Roundtable of the Institute of Medicine (IOM). He also served on the IOM Committee that recommended Medicare coverage of clinical trials, which Congress recently approved. He is Director of coordinating center for the Centers for Education & Research in TherapeuticsÔ (CERTs), a public-private partnership among the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the FDA, academia, the medical products industry, and consumer groups. This partnership focuses on research and education that will advance the best use of medical products.

He has been married to Lydia Carpenter since 1974, and they have three children: Sharon, who recently graduated from Elon College; Sam, a sophomore at the University of Colorado-Boulder; and Tom, a high-school senior. Dr. Califf enjoys golf, basketball and listening to music.