| CARLOS A. CAMARGO, MD, DrPH
Position in CeDAR: Associate Director
Biosketch:
 Dr. Camargo is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Harvard University, an emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a research epidemiologist at the Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital – all in Boston.
Dr Camargo has focused his research on asthma/COPD and public health issues. Dr. Camargo directs the Emergency Medicine Network (EMNet), a research collaboration that involves almost 200 emergency departments (www.emnet-usa.org). At the Channing Laboratory, Dr Camargo works on several NIH-funded cohorts, looking at nutritional risk factors for asthma/COPD in approximately 300,000 Americans. Dr Camargo has >350 peer-reviewed publications and is past-president of the American College of Epidemiology. He served on the 2005 US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (Agriculture/HHS). He has served on many other national committees related to asthma, COPD, emergency medicine, epidemiology, and public health. The overall goals of these activities are: 1) to identify new approaches for asthma/COPD prevention, such as vitamin D supplementation; 2) to improve treatment of respiratory/allergy emergencies; and 3) to promote public health awareness and interventions in the emergency department.
Contact:
Email: ccamargo@partners.org
Website: www.emnet-usa.org
Academic Degrees:
| BA |
Stanford University |
1983 |
Human Biology |
| MPH |
UC Berkeley |
1989 |
Epidemiology |
| MD |
UC San Francisco |
1990 |
Medicine |
| DrPH |
Harvard University |
1996 |
Epidemiology |
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