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Charles B. Cairns

Charles B. Cairns, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, FAHA, FAAAS

Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Dean; Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs


Education

  • AB in Chemistry - Dartmouth College
  • MD - School of Medicine, University of North Carolina

Awards & Honors

  • Presidential Citation Award, Society of Critical Care Medicine
  • Established Investigator Award, Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • Outstanding Contribution in Research Award, American College of Emergency Physicians
  • John Marx Leadership Award, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
  • Mentor Scholar Award, National Foundation for Emergency Medicine
  • Special Leadership Recognition Award, U.S. Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group
  • Special Research Recognition Award, American College of Emergency Physicians

Memberships / Professional Affiliations

  • Member, Board of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Foundation
  • Member, Administrative Board of the Council of Deans
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Fellow, American College of Emergency Physicians
  • Fellow, American Heart Association
  • American Association of Medical Colleges
  • Society for Critical Care Medicine
  • American Academy of Emergency Medicine
  • Alpha Omega Alpha
  • Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Postgraduate Training / Additional Certifications

  • Program in Genetics of Complex Diseases, Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine
  • Health Care Leadership Academy, Kenan-Flagler School of Business at UNC
  • Generative AI for Digital Transformation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.

Charles B. Cairns, MD, FACEP, FAHA, FAAAS, is board certified in emergency medicine. He is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and a fellow of the American Heart Association. Dr. Cairns graduated from Dartmouth College and was a Holderness Medical Fellow at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, where he received the Medical Faculty Award as the outstanding graduating medical student. He completed an emergency medicine residency and Emergency Medicine Foundation Research Fellowship at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He completed his post-graduate training in the Program in Genetics of Complex Diseases at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, and the Health Care Leadership Academy at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at UNC.

Residencies

  • Emergency Medicine - Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Fellowships

  • Emergency Medicine Foundation Research Fellowship - Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Charles B. Cairns, MD, is the Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Dean of the College of Medicine and senior vice president of medical affairs at Drexel University. Dr. Cairns is a leader in emergency medicine and critical care education, training and research. He has been leading Drexel through a partnership with St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children and the establishment of new regional medical campuses in Pennsylvania, California and Delaware, as well as the opening of a new four-year regional medical campus with Tower Health in West Reading. These efforts have resulted in record medical student applications, student enrollment and extramural research funding.

Previously, he served as dean of the College of Medicine and Health Sciences at the United Arab Emirates University and as dean of the College of Medicine and assistant vice president for clinical research at the University of Arizona. Dr. Cairns led the University of Arizona College of Medicine through the $1.2 billion merger with Banner Health, which resulted in one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the United States. He has also served as chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina, associate chief of emergency medicine at Duke University and director of emergency medicine research at the Duke Clinical Research Institute, the world’s largest academic clinical research organization.

Dr. Cairns has served as director of the NIH United States Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group and as principal investigator of the DHS National Collaborative for Biopreparedness. Most recently, he has been leading COVID-19 research and innovation efforts in understanding the acute and longitudinal immune response to severe SARS-CoV-2 infection as a clinical lead for the NIAID COVID-19 Immunophenotyping (IMPACC) study, on the DSMB of the NHLBI convalescent plasma study, and as principal investigator of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation project on the prediction of COVID-19 community infection and recovery.

He has published over 200 scientific articles and reviews and secured more than $40 million in research funding. Some of his honors and awards include the Outstanding Contribution in Research Award from the American College of Emergency Physicians, Established Investigator Award from the Emergency Medicine Foundation, National Foundation of Emergency Medicine Mentor Scholar Award, Presidential Citation Award from the Society for Critical Care Medicine and the John Marx Leadership Award from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the highest award in the field. Dr. Cairns is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

He has served on the editorial boards of Annals of Emergency Medicine, Academic Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine and is the founding editor-in-chief of Frontiers in Disaster and Emergency Medicine. Dr. Cairns serves on the St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children Board, Board of the Eureka Institute for Translational Medicine, Board of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Foundation and the Administrative Board of the Council of Deans of the American Association of Medical Colleges.

Dr. Cairns is an honors graduate of Dartmouth College and received his medical degree from the University of North Carolina, where he was a Holderness Medical Fellow and received the Medical Faculty Award as the outstanding graduating medical student. He completed his residency in emergency medicine and fellowship in cardiovascular research at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, the American Heart Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

In the Media

“Making an Impact: Results from an NIAID-funded Study of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients”
NIAID Now (May 1, 2024)

“'Preparing for this all my life': AHN doctor steps into her role at Drexel University”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (July 2023)

“Can Doctors Predict The Severity of COVID-19 in Their Patients?”
Drexel News (June 12, 2023)

“Spotlight On: Charles Cairns, Dean, Drexel University College of Medicine”
Capital Analytics (June 5, 2023)

“Are researchers closer to understanding who is at risk of hospitalization from COVID-19?”
Drexel News Blog (December 12, 2022)

“Cape Fear Valley Health to serve as medical campus for Drexel University”
Biz Fayetteville (April 7, 2022)

“Drexel University College of Medicine at Tower Health in Wyomissing ready for students”
Reading Eagle (July 27, 2021)

“Med school class hopes to curb projected doctor shortage”
WFMZ-TV (August 4, 2021)

“Med school class hopes to curb projected doctor shortage”
WFMZ -TV (August 4, 2021)

“Why hasn’t FDA given more than emergency approval for COVID-19 vaccines?”
KMBZ-Radio (July 27, 2021)

Additional articles...

“COVID-19 vaccines are still emergency use. Why hasn’t the FDA given full approval yet?”
KYW-Newsradio (July 27, 2021)

Discussion of the Biden administration's plans to address the pandemic on WCAU-TV (NBC-10)
WCAU-TV (NBC-10) (January 21, 2021)

“Coronavirus Vaccine Guide: When Will You Get Your Doses? How Effective Are They?”
MSN News (December 10, 2020)

Discussion of new coronavirus vaccine on WPVI-TV (6-abc)
WPVI-TV (6-abc) (December 8, 2020)

“Record-high Pa. COVID-19 numbers a reminder ‘we are really in the midst of a crisis’”
KYW Newsradio (December 5, 2020)

“When can I get the COVID vaccine in Pennsylvania? Here's how it will work and how it could be distributed”
Bucks County Courier Times (November 24, 2020)

“How virus vaccines could roll out”
Doylestown Intelligencer (November 24, 2020)

“Here’s How the City Is Preparing to Distribute a COVID-19 Vaccine Once One Is Ready”
Philadelphia Magazine (November 24, 2020)

“A COVID-19 vaccine may be near, but distribution faces major hurdles”
Philadelphia Inquirer (November 19, 2020)

Discussion on upcoming coronoavirus vaccine on WCAU-TV (NBC-10)
WCAU-TV (NBC-10) (November 19, 2020)

“Drexel Medical Expert Talks Vaccine, Side Effects”
WCAU-TV (NBC-10) (November 13, 2020)

“What New Coronavirus Mutation Could Mean Going Forward”
WCAU-TV (NBC-10) (November 8, 2020)

“Pennsylvania Prepares To Launch Coronavirus-Tracing App Next Month”
CBS3 (KYW-TV) (August 17, 2020)

Discussion of Drexel Health Tracker app on WPVI-TV (6-abc)
WPVI-TV (6-abc) (August 3, 2020)

“Should baseball switch to an NBA-style ‘bubble?’ Physicians talk COVID-19 and pro sports.”
Philadelphia Inquirer (July 27, 2020)

Discussion of initial results of a COVID-19 vaccine trial at the University of Oxford
WCAU-TV (NBC-10) (July 26, 2020)

“Discussion of Drexel Health Tracker on NBC-10”
WCAU-TV (NBC-10) (July 10, 2020)

“Coronavirus contact tracing raises concerns about digital privacy”
Philadelphia Inquirer (July 7, 2020)

“Our Biggest Questions About Immunity to COVID-19”
MIT Technology Review, (June 19, 2020)

Discussion of National NIH COVID-19 Study on NBC-10
WCAU-TV (NBC-10) (June 7, 2020)“Drexel College of Medicine picked for NIH study on COVID-19”
WPVI-TV (6-abc) (June 7, 2020)

"A quick finger-prick blood test can determine whether you've ever had the coronavirus. It could be widely available within weeks."
Yahoo! News (April 1, 2020)

"A quick finger-prick blood test can determine whether you've ever had the coronavirus. It could soon become widely available."
Business Insider (April 1, 2020)

"When Will This End? Your Biggest Questions About COVID-19 Answered"
Forbes (April 1, 2020)

"How antibody tests work and could help fight the coronavirus"
Science News (March 27, 2020)

"Healing St. Chris"
Philadelphia Business Journal (February 13, 2020)

"Drexel names new medical school dean"
Philadelphia Business Journal (April 3, 2019)

Publications

Recent Peer-Reviewed Manuscripts

“Acetaminophen for Prevention and Treatment of Organ Dysfunction in Critically Ill Patients With Sepsis: The ASTER Randomized Clinical Trial”
Ware LB, Files DC, Fowler A, Aboodi MS, Aggarwal NR, Brower RG, Chang SY, Douglas IS, Fields S, Foulkes AS, Ginde AA, Harris ES, Hendey GW, Hite RD, Huang W, Lai P, Liu KD, Thompson BT, Matthay MA; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Prevention and Early Treatment of Acute Lung Injury Clinical Trials Network
JAMA. 2024 May 19. doi: 10.1001/jama.2024.8772. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38762798

“Integrated longitudinal multi-omics study identifies immune programs associated with COVID-19 severity and mortality in 1152 hospitalized participants”
Gygi JP, Maguire C, Patel RK, Shinde P, Konstorum A, Shannon CP, Xu L, Hoch A, Jayavelu ND, Network I, Haddad EK, Reed EF, Kraft M, McComsey GA, Metcalf J, Ozonoff A, Esserman D, Cairns CB, Rouphael N, Bosinger SE, Kim-Schulze S, Krammer F, Rosen LB, van Bakel H, Wilson M, Eckalbar W, Maecker H, Langelier CR, Steen H, Altman MC, Montgomery RR, Levy O, Melamed E, Pulendran B, Diray-Arce J, Smolen KK, Fragiadakis GK, Becker PM, Augustine AD, Sekaly RP, Ehrlich LIR, Fourati S, Peters B, Kleinstein SH, Guan L
J Clin Invest.. 2024 May 1;134(9):e176640

“Host-Microbe Multiomic Profiling Reveals Age-Dependent COVID-19 Immunopathology”
Phan HV, Tsitsiklis A, Maguire CP, Haddad EK, Becker PM, Kim-Schulze S, Lee B, Chen J, Hoch A, Pickering H, Van Zalm P, Altman MC, Augustine AD, Calfee CS, Bosinger S, Cairns CB, Eckalbar W, Guan L, Jayavelu ND, Kleinstein SH, Krammer F, Maecker HT, Ozonoff A, Peters B, Rouphael N, IMPACC Network, Montgomery RR, Reed E, Schaenman J, Steen H, Levy O, Diray-Arce J, Langelier CR
Science Transl Med. 2024 Apr 17;16(743):eadj5154

“Update on the Management of Status Asthmaticus Gravidus and Acute Severe Asthma during Pregnancy”
Cairns CB, Kraft M
ARCH Women Health Care. 2024; 7(1): 1-2. DOI: 10.31038/AWHC.2024712

“IgM N-glycosylation correlates with COVID-19 severity and rate of complement deposition”
Haslund-Gourley B, Woloszcuk K, Hou J, Connors J, Cusimano G, Bell M, Taramangalam B, Fourati S, Mege N, Bernui M, Altman M, Krammer F, van Bakel H, Maecker H, Wigdahl B, Cairns CB, Haddad E, Comunale M
Nature Commun. 2024 Jan 9;15(1):404

“Features of acute COVID-19 associated with Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 phenotypes: results from the IMPACC study”
Ozonoff A, Jayavelu ND, Liu S, Melamed E, Milliren CE, Qi J, Geng LN, McComsey GA, Cairns CB, Baden LR, Schaenman J, Shaw AC, Samaha H, Seyfert-Margolis V, Krammer F, Rosen LB, Steen H, Syphurs C, Dandekar R, Shannon CP, Sekaly RP, Ehrlich LIR, Corry DB, Kheradmand F, Atkinson MA, Brakenridge SC, Higuita NIA, Metcalf JP, Hough CL, Messer WB, Pulendran B, Nadeau KC, Davis MM, Sesma AF, Simon V, van Bakel H, Kim-Schulze S, Hafler DA, Levy O, Kraft M, Bime C, Haddad EK, Calfee CS, Erle DJ, Langelier CR, Eckalbar W, Bosinger S, IMPACC Network, Peters B, Kleinstein SH, Reed EF, Augustine AD, Diray-Arce J, Maecker HT, Altman MC, Montgomery RR, Becker PM, Rouphael N
Nature Commun. 2024 Jan 3;15(1):216

“A Coronavirus Cohort Case Study - Dataset Trends using Machine Learning Methods”
Kim E, Isozaki I, Tripathi S, Robinson L, Robertson N, Seyfert-Margolis V, Cairns CB
2023 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), Istanbul, Turkiye, 2023, pp. 4213-4219

“AWAreness during REsuscitation - II: A Multi-Center Study of Consciousness and Awareness in Cardiac Arrest”
Parnia S, Keshavarz Shirazi T, Patel J, Tran L, Sinha N, O'Neill C, Roellke E, Mengotto A, Findlay S, McBrine M, Spiegel R, Tarpey T, Huppert E, Jaffe I, Gonzales AM, Xu J, Koopman E, Perkins GD, Vuylsteke A, Bloom BM, Jarman H, Nam Tong H, Chan L, Lyaker M, Thomas M, Velchev V, Cairns CB, Sharm R, Kulstad E, Scherer E, O'Keeffe T, Foroozesh M, Abe O, Ogedegbe C, Girgis A, Pradhan D, Deakin CD
Resuscitation. 2023 Oct;191:109903. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2023.109903

“Multi-omic longitudinal study reveals immune correlates of clinical course among hospitalized COVID-19 patients”
Diray-Arce J, Fourati S, Jayavelu ND, Patel R, Maguire C, Chang A, Dandekar R, Qi J, Lee B, van Zalm P, Schroeder A, Chen E, Konstorum A, Brito A, Gygi J, Kho A, Chen J, Pawar S, Silvia Gonzalez-Reiche A, Hoch A, Milliren CE, Overton JA, Westendorf K, IMPACC Network, Cairns CB, Rouphael N, Bosinger S, Kim-Schulze S, Krammer F, Rosen L, Grubaugh N, van Bakel H, Wilson M, Rajan J, Steen H, Eckalbar W, Cotsapas C, Langelier CR, Levy O, Altman MC, Maecker H, Montgomery RR, Haddad EK, Sekaly RP, Esserman D, Ozonoff A, Becker PM, Augustine AD, Guan L, Peters B, Kleinstein SH
Cell Reports Medicine 2023 Jun 20;4(6):101079

“Status Asthmaticus Gravidus: Emergency and Critical Care Management of Acute Severe Asthma During Pregnancy”
Cairns CB, Kraft M
Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America 2023 Feb;43(1):87-102

“Early Restrictive or Liberal Fluid Management for Sepsis-Induced Hypotension”
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Prevention and Early Treatment of Acute Lung Injury Clinical Trials Network; Shapiro NI, Douglas IS, Brower RG, Brown SM, Exline MC, Ginde AA, Gong MN, Grissom CK, Hayden D, Hough CL, Huang W, Iwashyna TJ, Jones AE, Khan A, Lai P, Liu KD, Miller CD, Oldmixon K, Park PK, Rice TW, Ringwood N, Semler MW, Steingrub JS, Talmor D, Thompson BT, Yealy DM, Self WH
New England Journal of Medicine 2023 Feb 9;388(6):499-510

“Phenotypes of disease severity in a cohort of hospitalized COVID-19 patients: results from the IMPACC study”
Ozonoff A, Schaenman J, Jayavelu ND, Milliren CE, Calfee CS, Cairns CB, Kraft M, Baden LR, Shaw AC, Krammer F, van Bakel H, Esserman DA, Sesma AF, Simon V,. Hafler DA, Montgomery RR, Kleinstein SH, Levy O, Bime C, Haddad EK, Erle DJ, Pulendran B, Nadeau RKC, Davis MM, Hough CL, Messer WB, Higuita NIA, Metcalf JP, Atkinson MA, Brakenridge SC, Corry D, Kheradmand F, Ehrlich LIR, Melamed E, McComsey GA, Sekaly R, Diray-Arce J, Peters B, Augustine AD, Reed EF, Altman MC, Becker PM, Rouphael N, and the IMPACC study group members
Lancet EBioMedicine 2022;83:104208

“The Making of a Community-Based Medical School Branch Campus: A Study in Healthcare System Dynamics on Medical Education Drexel University College of Medicine at Tower Health, West Reading, Pennsylvania”
Schidlow DV, Restifo K, Cairns CB
The Advisor 2022; 42 (2): 11

“Emergency Medicine Research: 2030 Strategic Goals”
Neumar RW, Blomkalns AL, Cairns CB, D’Onofrio G, Kuppermann N, Lewis RJ, Newgard CD,, O’Neil BJ, Rathlev NK, Rothman RE, Wright DW
Academic Emergency Medicine 2022 Feb;29(2):241-251

“A Target for Increased Mortality Risk in Critically Ill Patients: The Concept of Perpetuity”
Mosier, JM, Fisher JM, Hypes CD, Bedrick EJ, Campbell ES, Lutrick K, Cairns CB
Journal of Clinical Medicine 2021 Sep 2;10(17):3971

“IMmunophenotyping Assessment in a COVID-19 Cohort (NIAID IMPACC): A Prospective Longitudinal Study”
ImmunoPhenotyping Assessment in a COVID-19 Cohort (IMPACC) Network
Science Immunology 2021 Aug 10;6(62):eabf3733

“Masking for COVID-19 is Associated with Decreased Emergency Department Visits for Influenza and Respiratory Conditions in Maryland”
Dezman Z, Stryckman B, Zachrison KS, Conrad RM, Marcozzi D, Pimentel L, Samuels-Kalow M, Cairns CB
American Journal of Medicine 2021 Jul 6:S0002-9343(21)00410-1

“Discriminating Bacterial and Viral Infection Using a Rapid Host Gene Expression Test”
Tsalik EL Henao R, Montgomery JL, Nawrocki JW, Aydin M, Lydon EC, Ko ER, Petzold E, Nicholson BP, Cairns CB, Glickman SW, Quackenbush E, Kingsmore SF, BAO D, Jaehne AK, Rivers EP, Langley RJ, Fowler VG, McClain MT, Crisp RJ, Ginsburg GS, Burke TW, Hemmert AC, Woods CW
Critical Care Medicine 2021 Oct 1;49(10):1651-1663

“A Patient Reported Approach to Identify Medical Errors and Improve Patient Safety in the Emergency Department”
Glickman SW, Mehrotra A, Shea CM, Mayer C, Strickler J, Pabers S, Larson J, Goldstein B, Mandelkehr L, Cairns CB, Pines JM, Schulman KA
Journal of Patient Safety 2020 Sep;16(3):211-215

“Evaluation of Vasopressor Exposure and Mortality in Patients With Septic Shock”
Roberts RJ, Miano TA, Hammond DA, Patel GP, Chen JT, Phillips KM, Lopez N, Kashani K, Qadir N, Cairns CB, Mathews K, Park P, Khan A, Gilmore JF, Brown ART, Tsuei B, Handzel M, Chang AL, Duggal A, Lanspa M, Herbert JT, Martinez A, Tonna J, Ammar MA, Nazer LH, Heavner M, Pender E, Chambers L, Kenes MT, Kaufman D, Downey A, Brown B, Chaykosky D, Wolff A, Smith M, Nault K, Gong MN, Sevransky JE, Lat I; Observation of VariatiOn in fLUids adMinistEred in shock-CHaracterizAtion of vaSoprEssor Requirements in Shock (VOLUME-CHASERS) Study Group and SCCM Discovery Network
Critical Care Medicine 2020 Oct;48(10):1445-1453

“Variation in Fluid and Vasopressor Use in Shock With and Without Physiologic Assessment: A Multicenter Observational Study”
Chen, JT; Roberts, R; Fazzari, MJ; Kashani, K; Qadir, N; Cairns, CB; Mathews, K; Park, P; Khan, A; Gilmore, JF; Brown, ART; Tsuei, B; Handzel, M; Lee Chang, A; Duggal, A; Lanspa, M; Herbert, JT; Martinez, A; Tonna, J; Ammar, MA; Hammond, D; Nazer, LH; Heavner, M; Pender, E; Chambers, L; Kenes, MT; Kaufman, D; Downey, A; Brown, B; Chaykosky, D; Wolff, A; Smith, M; Nault, K; Sevransky, J; Gong, MN; VOLUME-CHASERS Study Group and Society for Critical Care Medicine Discovery Network
Critical Care Medicine 2020 Oct;48(10):1436-1444

“Early High-Dose Vitamin D3 for Critically Ill, Vitamin D-Deficient Patients”
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute PETAL Clinical Trials Network, Ginde AA, Brower RG, Caterino JM, Finck L, Banner-Goodspeed VM, Grissom CK, Hayden D, Hough CL, Hyzy RC, Khan A, Levitt JE, Park PK, Ringwood N, Rivers EP, Self WH, Shapiro NI, Thompson BT, Yealy DM, Talmor D
New England Journal of Medicine 2019 Dec 26; 381(26): 2529-2540

“Validation of a host response test to distinguish bacterial and viral infection”
Lydon EC, Henao R, Burke TW, Aydin M, Nicholson BP, Glickman S, Fowler VG, Quackenbush EB, Cairns CB, Kingsmore SF, Jaehne AK, Rivers EP, Langley R, Petzold E, Ko E, McClain MT, Ginsburg GS, Woods CW, Tsalik EL
Lancet EBioMedicine 2019; 48: 453-461

"Impact of Point-of-Care Ultrasound in the Emergency Department on the Outcomes of Critically Ill Patients"
Mosier JM, Stolz U, Milligan R, Roy-Chaudhury A, Lutrick K, Hypes CD, Billheimer D, Cairns CB
Critical Care Medicine Explorations 2019 1(6):e0019.

"Recruitment of Dual Career Academic Medicine Couples"
Putnam CW, DiMarco J, Cairns CB
Academic Medicine 2018 Nov;93(11):1604-1606

"A Randomized Study of Immune Plasma for the Treatment of Severe Influenza"
Beigel JH, Tebas P, Elie-Turenne MC, Bajwa E, Bell TE, Cairns CB, Shoham S, Deville JG, Feucht E, Feinberg J, Luke T, Ravirakas K, Danko J, O’Neil D, Metcalf JA, King K, Burgess T, Aga E, Lane HC, Hughes MD, Davey RT
Lancet Respir Med. 2017 May 15. pii: S2213-2600(17)30174-1

"A Transformative Approach to Academic Medicine: The Partnership Between the University of Arizona and Banner Health"
Cairns CB, Bollinger K, Garcia JGN
Acad Med. 2017 Jan;92(1):20-22

"Host gene expression classifiers diagnose acute respiratory illness etiology"
Tsalik EL, Henao R, Nichols M, Burke T, Ko ER, McClain MT, Hudson LL, Mazur A, Freeman DH, Veldman T, Langley RJ, Quackenbush EB, Glickman SW, Cairns CB, Jaehne AK, Rivers EP, Otero RM, Zaas AK, Kingsmore SF, Lucas J, Fowler VG, Carin L, Ginsburg GS, Woods CW
Sci Transl Med. 20 Jan 2016: Vol. 8, Issue 322, pp. 322ra1

"Confronting Ethical and Regulatory Challenges of Emergency Care Research with Conscious Patients"
Dickert NW, Brown J, Cairns CB, Eaves-Leanos A, Goldkind S, Kim S, Nichol G, O’Conor K, Scott J, Sinert R, Wendler D, Wright D, Silbergleit R
Ann Emerg Med. 2015 Dec 18. pii: S0196-0644(15)01425-0

"United States Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group–Program for Emergency Preparedness. Development of a Core Clinical Dataset to Characterize Serious Illness, Injuries, and Resource Requirements for Acute Medical Responses to Public Health Emergencies"
Murphy DJ, Rubinson L, Blum J, Isakov A, Bhagwanjee S, Cairns CB, Cobb JP, Sevransky JE
Crit Care Med. 2015 Nov;43(11):2403-8

"Deployable, portable, and temporary hospitals; one state's experience through the years"
Kearns RD, Skarote MB, Peterson J, Stringer L, Alson RL, Cairns BA, Hubble MW, Rich PB, Cairns CB, Runge J, Siler SM, Winslow J, Holmes JH
Am J Disaster Med. 2014; 9(3):195-210

"An integrated transcriptome and expressed variant analysis of sepsis survival and death"
Tsalik EL, Langley RJ, Dinwiddie DL, Miller NA, Yoo B, van Velkinburgh JC, Smith LD, Thiffault I, Jaehne AK, Valente AM, Henao R, Yuan X, Glickman SW, Rice BJ, McClain MT, Carin L, Corey GR, Ginsburg GS, Cairns CB, Otero RM, Fowler VG, Rivers EP, Woods CW, Kingsmore SF
Genome Med. 2014 Nov 26;6(11):111

"The 2012 Derecho: Experiences from the West Virginia Emergency Medical Services and Hospitals Response"
Kearns RD, Wnek SM, Fernandez A, Tucker MA, Wigal MS, Mills MR, Cairns CB, Cairns BA, Zee G
Prehosp Disaster Med. 2014 Sep 18:1-4

"Age-related differences in biomarkers of acute inflammation during hospitalization for sepsis"
Ginde AA, Blatchford PJ, Trzeciak S, Hollander JE, Birkhahn R, Otero R, Osborn TM, Moretti E, Bryant Nguyen H, Gunnerson KJ, Milzman D, Gaieski DF, Goyal M, Cairns CB, Rivers EP, Shapiro NI
Shock. 2014 Aug;42(2):99-107

"Use of Prehospital 12-Lead Electrocardiography and Treatment Times Among ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients With Atypical Symptoms"
Cannon AR, Lin L, Lytle B, Peterson ED, Cairns CB, Glickman SW
Acad Emerg Med 2014 Aug;21(8):892-8

"Advanced Burn Life Support for day to day Burn Injury Management and Disaster Preparedness; Stakeholder Experiences and Student Perceptions following 56 ABLS courses"
Kearns RD, Ortiz-Pujols SM, Craig CK, Gusler JR, Skarote MB, Carter J, Link P, Rezak-Alger A, Cairns CB, Lofald D, Holmes JH 4th, Cairns BA
J Burn Care Res. 2014 Aug 27

"A Randomized Trial Exploring the Effect of a Telephone Call Follow-up on Care Plan Compliance Among Older Adults Discharged Home From the Emergency Department"
Biese K, Lamantia M, Shofer F, McCall B, Roberts E, Stearns SC, Principe S, Kizer JS, Cairns CB, Busby-Whitehead J
Acad Emerg Med. 2014 Feb;21(2):188-195

"Hospital bioterrorism planning and burn surge"
Kearns RD, Cairns BA, Holmes JH, Cairns CB, Hultman S, Jones SW, Rich PB, Charles A, Skarote MB, Schnits GL, Myers B
Biosecur Bioterror 2014 Jan-Feb;12(1):20-8

"A systems survey unveils mechanisms of survival and death in community acquired sepsis"
Langley RJ, Tsalik EL, van Velkinburgh JC, Glickman SW, Rice BJ, Wang C, Chen B, Carin L, Suarez A, Mohney RP, Freeman DH, Øien NC, Wang M, You J, Wulff J, Thompson JW, Moseley AM, Reisinger S, Edmonds BT, Grinnell B, Nelson DR, Dinwiddie DL, Miller NA, Saunders CJ, Soden SS, Rogers AJ, Gazourian L, Fredenburgh L, Massaro AF, Baron RM, Choi AMK, Corey RC, Ginsburg GS, Cairns CB, Otero RM, Fowler VG, Rivers EP, Woods CW, Kingsmore SF:
Sci Transl Med. 2013 Jul 24;5(195):195ra95.

Recent Letters to the Editor and Commentaries

"UA Offers Variety of Resources to Address Employees’ Physical, Emotional Wellbeing"
Cairns CB
Life and Work Connections September 2017; 37: 5: 1

"Women in Medicine: Gender Matters"
Cairns CB
Arizona Physician March 2017: 6-7

"Building Academic Medicine’s Future"
Cairns CB
Sombrero December 2016: 11-12

"The Precision Medicine Initiative at the University of Arizona"
Cairns CB
Sombrero November 2016: 8-9

"Record Year for the University of Arizona College of Medicine"
Cairns CB
Sombrero October 2016: 8-9

"National Institutes of Health Funding of Emergency Care Research: Feast and Famine?"
Baren J, Cairns CB, Neumar R
Ann Emerg Med 2016 Aug;68(2):172-3

"Shaping the Future of Academic Medicine in Tucson and Across Arizona"
Cairns CB
Sombrero June/July 2016: 6-7

Presentations

Recent National/International Research Presentations

“Phoenix Rising: A tale of medical bankruptcy, transformation and evolution”
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, District of Columbia, March 2023

“Responding to Healthcare System Changes”
Executive Development Seminar for Deans, American Association of Medical Colleges, Washington, DC, January 2023

“Precision Medicine: How does Precision and Population Health Intersect with Traditional Notions of Translational Medicine?”
Eureka Institute for Translational Medicine, Siracusa, Italy, October 2022

“On the Centrality of Working Together: Perspective from a Dean and Society”
Frontiers in Medicine, Milan, Italy, October 2022

“Precision Emergency Medicine: Phenotyping the Acute Host Response”
8th Annual World Antimicrobial Resistance Congress and Disease Prevention & Control Summit, Oxon Hill, Md., September 2022

“Population Medicine and Health”
Eureka Institute for Translational Medicine, Siracusa, Italy, March 2022

“Applying Lessons from the Hahnemann Closure to Future Crises impacting Clinical Education”
Council of Deans, American Association of Medical Colleges, Virtual Meeting, May 2021

“Courageous Leadership”
National Meeting (Learn, Service, Lead), American Association of Medical Colleges, Virtual Meeting, November 2020

“Population Medicine”
Eureka Institute for Translational Medicine, Siracusa, Italy, October 2019

"Recent Scientific Advancements in Precision Medicine"
American University Biomedical Research Forum, Beirut, Lebanon, March 2019

“Precision Emergency Medicine”
Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine, Dubai, UAE, December 2018

“Emergency Management of Acute Asthma in Adults”
Gulf Thoracic Congress, Dubai, UAE, March 2018

“Career Development After Graduation”
Gulf Thoracic Medical Student Forum, Dubai, UAE, March 2018

“Research Methodology: Writing the Proposal”
Gulf Thoracic Research Methodology Workshop, Dubai, UAE, March 2018

“Strategic Research Agenda for Critical Care”
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., November 2017

"Precision Emergency Medicine"
Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine, Dubai, UAE, December 2018

"Emergency Management of Acute Asthma in Adults"
Gulf Thoracic Congress, Dubai, UAE, March 2018

"Career Development After Graduation"
Gulf Thoracic Medical Student Forum, Dubai, UAE, March 2018

"Research Methodology: Writing the Proposal"
Gulf Thoracic Research Methodology Workshop, Dubai, UAE, March 2018

"Strategic Research Agenda for Critical Care"
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., November 2017

"Transforming Academic Medicine"
Asian Academy of Heart Valve Disease, Tucson, Ariz., April 2017

"Overview of the Partnership Between the University of Arizona and Banner Health"
Council of Deans and Council of Teaching Hospitals, American Association of Medical Colleges, Atlanta, Ga., March 2016

"Precision Medicine Approaches to Multisystem Organ Failure"
Society for Critical Care Medicine, Orlando, Fla., February 2016

"The U.S. Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group: Update and Strategic Planning"
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., November 2015

"U.S. Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group"
Critical Care Assembly, American Thoracic Society, Denver, Colo., May 2015

"North American Pandemic Preparedness"
International Forum for Acute Care Trialists (InFACT), Canadian Critical Care Trials Group, Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, February 2015

"Rapid Research in Disasters"
Institutional Review Board Workshop, National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, September 2014

"U.S. Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group"
Enabling Public Health Research During Disasters, Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., June 2014

"Clinical Research in Public Health Emergencies: U.S. Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group"
Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats (CounterACT) Meeting, National Institutes of Health, Denver, Colo., June 2014

"U.S. Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group: Program for Emergency Preparedness"
American Thoracic Society, San Diego, Calif., June 2014

"Phenotyping in the Era of Personalized Emergency Medicine"
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Dallas, Texas May 2014

"National Collaborative for Bio-Preparedness"
Public Health Preparedness Summit, Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences, Atlanta, Ga., April 2014


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