About CERTs
Steering Committee
Robert M. Califf, MD
Dr. Califf is the director of the Coordinating Center for CERTs. He is Vice Chancellor for Clinical 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. For 10 years he was Director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), the largest academic research organization in the world. Dr. Califf is the editor-in-chief of Elsevier's American Heart Journal, the oldest cardiovascular specialty journal. He has been an author or coauthor of more than 650 peer-reviewed journal articles and is a contributing editor for theheart.org, an online information resource for academic and practicing cardiologists.
Dr. 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 served on the IOM committees that recommended Medicare coverage of clinical trials, which Congress approved. He is currently serving on the IOM's Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors as well as its Forum in Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation, 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.