A 6-Month Update on Charlotte’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Join us for a follow-up WACC Distinguished Speaker Series with Dr. David Callaway, Medical Director of Emergency Management at Atrium Health CMC-Main, Chief Medical Officer at Team Rubicon, and WACC Board of Directors member.

Pandemics threaten the fabric of the global community and represent one of the greatest challenges to any disaster response organization. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Callaway‘s work in global health security has primarily focused on trauma preparedness, terrorism, and responding to natural disasters. As an emergency medicine physician, he has also been actively involved in helping large health systems prepare and respond to emerging infectious disease threats for more than a decade.

Dr. Callaway currently serves as the Medical Director of Emergency Management for Atrium Health’s Carolina Medical Center-Main, where he has helped lead teams during the MERS, Ebola, and now COVID-19 responses. Dr. Callaway also spoke with the Council in April about Charlotte’s pandemic response, and will now be providing us with an updated perspective.

You can read Dr. Callaway‘s article How to Deploy a Volunteer Disaster Relief Army During a Pandemic, here and his full biography here.

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WACC Distinguished Speaker Series (Virtual)

Date: Thursday, October 22
Time: 2:00 p.m.
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Biography
Dr. David Callaway is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Atrium Health in Charlotte, NC where he is Chief of Disaster Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Callaway is Navy Veteran who served with the United States Marine Corps in Iraq, Burma, and El Salvador. He is the father of Elizabeth and Lilianna, two princess warriors, and husband of Dr. Jennifer Callaway. He has an unrelenting drive to improve his community and a “healthy distaste for the status quo”. Dr. Callaway subscribes to the idea that crisis offers opportunity. As an Eisenhower Fellow in 2014, he investigated the health and security impacts of Syrian refugees on Jordanian civil society. Currently, he is working to mobilize U.S. combat Veterans to engage in community service projects focused on social justice. David’s extensive work in health and crisis recently led to his appointment as Chief Medical Officer for Team Rubicon and as a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Currently, Dr. Callaway leads the Emergency Medicine COVID-19 Nerve Center and is involved in Atrium Health’s crisis surge capacity planning.