Vice President for Academic Affairs

8441 State Highway 47
Clinical Building 1, Suite 3100
Bryan, TX  77807
Phone:  (979) 436-9110
Fax:  (979) 436-0072
Email: Mccallum@tamhsc.edu
Web: http://tamhsc.edu/departments/academicaffairs

Roderick E. McCallum, Ph.D., currently serves as vice president for academic affairs for the Texas A&M Health Science Center. He recently was executive associate dean for the College of Medicine, director of research for the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System and interim Dean of Medicine. Other positions he has held include interim vice president for academic affairs for the TAMHSC, associate dean for Research and Graduate Studies, head of the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, and director of the Institute of Molecular Pathogenesis and Therapeutics.

Dr. McCallum was a member of the Bacteriology/Mycology Study Section, Division of Research Grants, National Institutes of Health and has served on the editorial boards of Circulatory Shock, Infection and Immunity, and the Journal of Immunology. He has also served as an editor for Infection and Immunity.

Dr. McCallum is past president of the Texas Branch of the American Society for Microbiology and in 1995, he was named a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. He also belongs to the Texas Infectious Diseases Society and the Society for Leukocyte Biology.

Dr. McCallum has published 44 books, chapters and journal articles and received grants totaling $4.76 million. He has performed research in the area of infectious disease pathogenesis and gram negative shock and sepsis and is a charter member of the International Endotoxin Society and the Shock Society. Recently, he has been actively involved in improving childhood immunization in underserved populations.

A native Kansan, Dr. McCallum received a B.A. and Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Kansas in 1967 and 1970, respectively. He was a U.S. Public Health Service postdoctoral trainee in medical microbiology at the University of Texas at Austin from 1970-72. He joined the faculty of the College of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center in 1972 and attained the rank of professor of microbiology and immunology and oral pathology before assuming his duties at Texas A&M in 1992.