Professor Charles V Pollack

Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson, MS, USA

Dr. Charles Pollack is a Clinician-Scientist with an academic appointment in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine. He has long been active in teaching and clinical research and is an international leader in emergency medicine. He is the only physician to have received the American College of Emergency Physicians’ highest national awards in both teaching and research; he also received the national teaching award from the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors. He was the first US emergency physician to be elected a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology. His primary research interests are in the management of thrombosis, reversal of antithrombotic therapy, and other aspects of urgent, emergent, and critical care.

Dr. Pollack has served as a consultant in senior leadership positions in Medical Affairs and Medical Communications for several small pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. He has expertise in clinical trial design and execution, in clinical development and life cycle management, and in working with regulatory authorities. He has served as PI or co-PI on multiple trials in the thrombosis and antithrombotic reversal spaces.

An internationally renowned and dedicated medical educator, Dr. Pollack also currently serves as the consulting Medical Director of AcademicCME, a highly regarded, joint accredited CE/CME content producer and distributor. Among other innovations he has developed with AcademicCME, Dr. Pollack was the first to demonstrate the feasibility, potential reach, and substantial value of accredited education delivered as “tweetorials”, posted serially and in their entirety on Twitter/X.

From 2015-2019, Dr. Pollack served as Associate Provost at Thomas Jefferson University, where he was also Professor and Senior Advisor for Interdisciplinary Research and Clinical Trials, Department of Emergency Medicine. From 2001-2015, Dr. Pollack was Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania and served as Chairman of Emergency Medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. From 1992-2001, Dr. Pollack served in various positions in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, an urban, tertiary care teaching hospital affiliated with the Medical College of the University of Arizona and the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine. He was Research Director from 1994 to 2000, and he chaired the department from 1997 to 2001. From 2000 through mid-2001, Dr. Pollack was also Director of Emergency Medicine at Arizona Heart Hospital.

Dr. Pollack graduated summa cum laude from Emory University in 1980 with bachelor’s degrees in history and chemistry and with a master’s degree in the history of science and medicine. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Pollack earned his medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine and is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha.

Dr. Pollack has written more than 500 original research articles, chapters, and abstracts, and serves on the editorial boards of several journals and on the steering committees of multiple national and international studies. He is a strong advocate for entrepreneurism and innovation in healthcare, and is passionate about addressing social inequality and access barriers in medicine. Dr. Pollack served two terms as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the University of Mississippi Medical Research Foundation. He is also a founding Board member of the Hospital Quality Foundation, a non-for-profit education and research organization dedicated to improvement in the quality of care provided to patients in the hospital and at transition back to the outpatient setting.