Special Visiting Speaker Seminer: Dr. Robert Califf

Robert Califf, MD from Duke University Medical Center will be giving a special visiting professor seminar on Tuesday, August 12th at 11am. The seminar will be held in Medical Towers, Room 634. The title of Dr. Califf’s talk is “What Kind of Clinical Trials should a National Network Conduct? A Perspective from one year of the NIH HCS Collaboratory and the Startup of PCORI.”

About the speaker:

Dr. Califf is Vice chancellor of clinical and translational research, director of the Duke Translational Medicine Institute (DTMI), and professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiology at the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, Robert Califf, MD, leads a multifaceted organization focused on the transformation of how discoveries are translated into improved medical care. Prior to his role at DTMI, he was the founding director, Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), a premier academic research organization. He is the editor-in-chief of American Heart Journal, the oldest cardiovascular specialty journal. He is considered an international leader in the fields of cardiovascular disease treatment, health outcomes, quality of care, and medical economics.

Please let Ryan Outman (routman@uab.edu) know if you have any questions regarding the seminar.