Duke Cameron

Duke Cameron is an American cardiac surgeon whose career has been built at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Hospital. He formerly served as Chief of Cardiac Surgery there, held the James T. Dresher Sr. professorship of surgery and directed both pediatric cardiac surgery and the Dana and Albert "Cubby" Broccoli Center for Aortic Diseases, and he returned to Hopkins in 2023. His clinical interests cover adult and pediatric cardiac surgery, cardiac transplantation, Marfan syndrome, mitral valve repair and aortic surgery, including valve-sparing aortic root replacement. In January 2008 he reported a very large surgical series, the thirty-year history of surgical treatment in 372 cases of Marfan syndrome at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He edited Current Therapy in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery with Stephen C. Yang, and he trained at Harvard College and Yale School of Medicine. This entry records a living clinician and teacher and is a reference record, not medical advice.