PC Short Bio 2016 (PDF)

Professor Peter Cameron
MBBS, MD, FACEM, FIFEM, FCEM (hon)
Executive Summary
Professor Cameron is the Academic Director of The Alfred Emergency and Trauma
Centre and Professor of Emergency and Divisional Head of Health Services Research
at Monash University’s School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine (SPHPM). Professor Cameron is also
the Chair of the Monash/Alfred Injury Network which brings together in excess of 100 researchers to form one of
the most comprehensive academic groups in emergency and trauma globally. He is currently a Chief
Investigator on a number of NHMRC grants including the Centre for Research Excellence in Australian
Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (Aus-ROC) and a number of partnership and project grants involving injury
and trauma research. He is also a Chief Investigator on leading clinical quality registries including the Victorian
State Trauma Registry, the Victorian Orthopaedic Trauma Registry, the Victorian Cardiac Arrest Registry, the
Massive Transfusion Registry, the Aus-ROC Epistry and the Burns Registry of Australia and New Zealand
(BRANZ).
Clinical Research: Professor Cameron currently holds in excess of 10 million dollars in competitive grants and
has attracted over 20 million dollars throughout his career. He has been a principal investigator on a number of
large NHMRC multicentre trials, including The Australasian Resuscitation in Sepsis Evaluation – Randomised
Controlled Trial (ARISE) (completed) and The RINSE Trial: The Rapid Infusion of Cold Normal SalinE by
paramedics during CPR (completed) and is currently a CI on POLAR study of hypothermia in head injury and
Reduction of Oxygen After Cardiac Arrest (EXACT). In the last five years he has published over 200
manuscripts in Medline indexed journals and has over 450 peer-reviewed career publications.
Invited Speaker: Professor Cameron is a regular speaker at numerous national and international meetings at
which he has presented on emergency medicine, resuscitation and trauma. He has recently presented at
international conferences in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Europe and the United States of America.
Editorial Appointments: Professor Cameron is on the Editorial Boards of six journals, Emergency Medicine
Australasia, Injury, The Polish Journal of Emergency Medicine and Hong Kong Journal of Medicine. Canadian
Journal of Emergency Medicine, Journal of Emergency Medicine, Trauma and Acute Care (JEMTAC). He also
reviews articles for many other journals.

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