Robert M. Califf, MD - Duke Medicine

Leadership Chancellor Administration Victor J. Dzau, MD R. Sanders Williams, MD Nancy Andrews, MD, PhD Catherine Lynch Gilliss, DNSc Asif Ahmad Monte D. Brown, MD Robert M. Califf, MD Michael Cuffe, MD Karen Frush, MD Mary Ann Fuchs, RN William J. Fulkerson Jr., MD Ranga R. Krishnan, MB ChB Kenneth C. Morris Michael J. Morsberger Paul Newman Molly O'Neill Robert L. Taber, PhD Douglas B. Vinsel Kerry Watson Huntington F. Willard, PhD Mark Newman, MD Kenneth Kreuzer, PhD Elizabeth DeLong, PhD Brigid Hogan, PhD J. Lloyd Michener, MD Thomas F. Tedder, PhD Harvey Jay Cohen, MD Thomas Petes, PhD James McNamara, MD Haywood Brown, MD David L. Epstein, MD Salvatore Pizzo, MD, PhD Joseph St. Geme III, MD Anthony R. Means, PhD Ranga R. Krishnan, MB ChB Christopher Willett, MD Carl E. Ravin, MD Danny O. Jacobs, MD Board Members
	Home > Leadership > Administration > Robert M. Califf, MD Robert M. Califf, MD Robert M. Califf, MD, is vice chancellor for clinical research and professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiology at Duke. Former director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, he became head of the Duke Translational Medicine Institute in 2006. A native of South Carolina, Califf graduated from Duke University, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, in 1973 and from the Duke University School of Medicine in 1978, where he was selected for Alpha Omega Alpha. He completed 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). Califf 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. 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 $100 million more than 800 employees, with extensive global collaborations with government agencies, the medical products industry, and academic partners. Califf 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 on Therapeutics™ (CERTs), a public-private partnership among the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the DCRI, academia, the medical products industry, and consumer groups. This partnership focuses on research and education that will advance the best use of medical products.