Dr. Charles B. Cairns

Emergency physician Cairns coming to UA

Dr.ย Charles B. Cairnsย was appointed assistant vice president for clinical research and clinical trials at the Arizona Health Sciences Center and vice dean and a professor of the University of Arizona College of Medicineโ€“Tucson.

Cairns will join the UA in November after serving as professor and chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He has been principal investigator of the National Collaborative for Bio-preparedness and as the associate director of the U.S. Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group. He also recently served as principal investigator of the National Regionalization of Emergency Medical Care Services Framework Project.

He previously was associate chief of emergency medicine at Duke University Medical Center and director of emergency medicine research at the Duke Clinical Research Institute, among other positions.

His awards include the American College of Emergency Physicians Outstanding Contribution in Research Award and the highest award of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.

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