Duke E. Cameron is an American

cardiac surgeon Cardiac surgery, or cardiovascular surgery, is surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons. It is often used to treat complications of ischemic heart disease (for example, with coronary artery bypass grafting); to ...

. Formerly Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; the James T. Dresher Sr. Professor of Surgery; Director of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery; and Director of The Dana and Albert "Cubby" Broccolibr>Center for Aortic Diseases
at the

Johns Hopkins Hospital The Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH) is the teaching hospital and biomedical research facility of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, located in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. It was founded in 1889 using money from a bequest of over $7 million (1873 ...

, he returned to Hopkins in 2023. His clinical interests include: *Adult and pediatric cardiac surgery * Cardiac transplantation *

Marfan syndrome Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a multi-systemic genetic disorder that affects the connective tissue. Those with the condition tend to be tall and thin, with long arms, legs, fingers, and toes. They also typically have exceptionally flexible joints a ...

Mitral valve repair Mitral valve repair is a cardiac surgery procedure performed by cardiac surgeons to treat stenosis (narrowing) or regurgitation (leakage) of the mitral valve. The mitral valve is the "inflow valve" for the left side of the heart. Blood flows f ...

*Aortic surgery including valve-sparing aortic root replacement He is the editor, along with Stephen C. Yang, of ''Current Therapy in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.'' In January 2008, Cameron reported a very large surgical series, the 30-year history of surgical treatment in 372 cases of

at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He graduated from

Harvard College Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, an Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, Harvard College is the original school of Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher ...

and

Yale School of Medicine The Yale School of Medicine is the graduate medical school at Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was founded in 1810 as the Medical Institution of Yale College and formally opened in 1813. The primary t ...

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Duke E. Cameron at Johns Hopkins MedicineAortic Root Replacement in 372 Marfan Patients: Evolution of Operative Repair Over 30 Years.Duke Cameron appointed Chief of Cardiac Surgery
Living people American cardiac surgeons Johns Hopkins Hospital physicians Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Harvard College alumni Yale School of Medicine alumni Physicians of Massachusetts General Hospital Medical journal editors {{US-bio-stub