Charles B. Cairns, MD is the Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Dean of the College of Medicine and Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs at Drexel University. He is a leader in emergency medicine and critical care education, training and research. 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.  He currently serves as clinical lead for the NIH COVID-19 Immunophenotyping (IMPACC) study and as Principal Investigator of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation project on COVID-19 Digital platform for patient recruitment, testing, prediction. He has published over 200 scientific articles and reviews and secured more than $40 million in research funding.  He serves on the boards of St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, National Foundation of Emergency Medicine and Eureka Institute for Translational Medicine.