Michael R. Sayre, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, USA
Michael R. Sayre, MD is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Xavier University and received his Doctor of Medicine from University of Cincinnati in 1984. Dr. Sayre completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA and remained on the attending staff there until 1990 when he returned to Cincinnati.
While on the faculty of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati, Dr. Sayre focused on Emergency Medical Services and sudden cardiac arrest resuscitation. In 2003, Dr. Sayre moved to The Ohio State University. He has remained active with cardiac arrest research and served as the Principal Investigator for the Ohio site in the ASPIRE clinical trial of the AutoPulse CPR assist device. He was the Chair of the AHA Basic Life Support Subcommittee during the 2005 ECC Guidelines process. He is currently the Vice-chairman of the AHA Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee and the Columbus site leader for Take Heart America, the Cardiac Arrest Survival Initiative.