Executive Vice President for Health Affairs
Charles Callahan, Ph.D.
Dr. Charles Callahan is the executive vice president for health affairs. Appointed in February 2025, Callahan is the first leader in this new role overseeing UToledo Health and leading strategic growth of the institution’s healthcare enterprise.
As the UToledo Health executive vice president for health affairs, Callahan works to further collaboration between the University of Toledo Medical Center, University of Toledo Physicians and the UToledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences.
Before joining UToledo, Callahan spent much of his career in administrative roles at Memorial Health in Springfield, Illinois, including serving as president of the five hospital Memorial Hospital Group and president and CEO of the 500-bed Springfield Memorial Hospital, as well as chief operating officer and chief quality officer.
Callahan is board certified in rehabilitation psychology and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American College of Healthcare Executives. He earned his Ph.D. and master’s degree in clinical psychology from the University of Nebraska‐Lincoln, his M.B.A. from the University of Illinois‐Springfield, and his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Creighton University.
Callahan has more than 50 professional publications in the areas of brain injury rehabilitation, neuropsychology, emergency/trauma medicine, healthcare process improvement and outcomes measurement. He previously served on the editorial boards of Rehabilitation Psychology and The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation.
Callahan completed the Baldrige National Quality Executive Fellowship in 2018 and is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. He is past president of the American Psychological Association’s Division of Rehabilitation Psychology.