Overview
Dr. Cameron has had a long and distinguished career in alimentary tract diseases and specifically in pancreatic cancer. He has won worldwide acclaim for mastering the Whipple procedure. At the beginning of his career, the mortality rate from the Whipple procedure was nearly 30 percent. He has worked to lower that to 1 percent to 2 percent at Johns Hopkins. He has operated on more patients with pancreatic cancer and done more Whipple resections than any other surgeon in the world. In addition to maintaining a busy practice that focuses mainly on pancreatic surgery, he has been a leader in the surgical profession, serving as president of the American College of Surgeons, Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, Southern Surgical Association, Society of Clinical Surgery, Society of Surgical Chairmen, Halsted Society and American Surgical Association. He served as chief of surgery for The Johns Hopkins Hospital for nineteen years. Dr. Cameron obtained his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1958, and his medical degree from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1962. All of his training in General and Thoracic Surgery was obtained at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Dr. Cameron is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Pancreatectomy. His top areas of expertise are Pancreatic Cancer, Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma, Pancreatic Islet Cell Tumor, Pancreaticoduodenectomy, and Pancreatectomy.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 182 peer reviewed articles and participating in 1 clinical trial. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 61 articles in the study of Pancreatectomy.
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- OTHER MEDICARE PART D
Locations
601 North Caroline Street, Floor 8, Floor 8, Baltimore, MD 21287
Additional Areas of Focus
Dr. Cameron has provided the following conditions as areas of focus. Please note that we may not have enough data to validate their experience in some of these conditions.
Clinical Research
Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.
1 Clinical Trials
Martin Makary is a General Surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Makary is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in Pancreatectomy. His top areas of expertise are Chronic Pancreatitis, Pancreatic Cancer, Hereditary Pancreatitis, Pancreatectomy, and Pancreaticoduodenectomy. Dr. Makary is currently accepting new patients.
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Jin He, M.D., Ph.D., is a professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and is the Division Chief of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary & Gastrointestinal Surgical Oncology. Dr. He specializes in diseases and tumors of the pancreas, liver, bile duct, and gallbladder. He performs open as well as minimally invasive (robotic and laparoscopic) surgery, including the Whipple procedure. Dr. He received his medical degree from Beijing Medical University and a Ph.D. in oncology from Fudan University Shanghai Medical College. He completed the Halsted general surgery residency training at Johns Hopkins, followed by an ACGME accredited fellowship in complex general surgical oncology at Johns Hopkins. Dr. He is the John Cameron Professor of Alimentary Tract Diseases. Dr. He’s research focuses on personalized treatment through stratifying pancreatic tumors on their genetic features. He holds several patents in anti-cancer vascular targeting agents and has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and lectured internationally. He serves on several national committees, including the NCCN panel on neuroendocrine tumors and the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology. Dr. He is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Pancreatectomy. His top areas of expertise are Pancreatic Cancer, Neuroendocrine Tumor, Cholangiocarcinoma (Bile Duct Cancer), Pancreaticoduodenectomy, and Pancreatectomy.
Medstar Medical Group Ii LLC
Thomas Fishbein is a Transplant Surgeon and a General Surgeon in Washington, Washington, D.c.. Dr. Fishbein is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in Pancreatectomy. His top areas of expertise are Bile Duct Cysts, Pancreatic Cancer, Liver Cancer, Liver Transplant, and Pancreatectomy. Dr. Fishbein is currently accepting new patients.
Areas of Expertise
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Learn more about MediFind’s expert tiers
- Elite
- PancreatectomyDr. Cameron isElite. Learn about Pancreatectomy.
- Pancreatic CancerDr. Cameron isElite. Learn about Pancreatic Cancer.
- PancreaticoduodenectomyDr. Cameron isElite. Learn about Pancreaticoduodenectomy.
- Distinguished
- Pancreatic Ductal AdenocarcinomaDr. Cameron isDistinguished. Learn about Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma.
- Pancreatic Islet Cell TumorDr. Cameron isDistinguished. Learn about Pancreatic Islet Cell Tumor.
- Advanced
- Ampullary CancerDr. Cameron isAdvanced. Learn about Ampullary Cancer.
- Cholangiocarcinoma (Bile Duct Cancer)
- Familial Pancreatic CancerDr. Cameron isAdvanced. Learn about Familial Pancreatic Cancer.
- Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary SurgeryDr. Cameron isAdvanced. Learn about Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery.
- Metastatic InsulinomaDr. Cameron isAdvanced. Learn about Metastatic Insulinoma.
- Neuroendocrine TumorDr. Cameron isAdvanced. Learn about Neuroendocrine Tumor.
- Experienced
- Bile Duct StrictureDr. Cameron isExperienced. Learn about Bile Duct Stricture.
- Childhood PancreatitisDr. Cameron isExperienced. Learn about Childhood Pancreatitis.
- CholestasisDr. Cameron isExperienced. Learn about Cholestasis.
- Chronic PancreatitisDr. Cameron isExperienced. Learn about Chronic Pancreatitis.
- Colorectal CancerDr. Cameron isExperienced. Learn about Colorectal Cancer.
- EndoscopyDr. Cameron isExperienced. Learn about Endoscopy.