Scott Cameron, MD, PhD.

Scott Cameron, MD, PhD.

Scott Cameron, MD, PhD, is Section Head, Vascular Medicine in the Tomsich Family Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute. He is a specialist in blood vessel disorders and platelet dysfunction and sees patients at Cleveland Clinic Main Campus and Solon Family Health Center. The Section of Vascular Medicine at Cleveland Clinic is one of the most active Vascular Medicine and Interventional Cardiology programs in the United States.

Dr Cameron’s speciality interests are medical management of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA), peripheral artery disease, hypertension, dyslipidemia, carotid disease, coronary artery disease, pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis (DVT), and dissecting arterial disorders. Dr. Cameron is a cardiologist with special expertise in management of vascular disease and also is experienced in caring for critically ill patients hospitalized with thrombotic emergencies, including heart attack, pulmonary embolism, aortic dissection, decompensated heart failure, complex arrhythmias, mechanical assistance and acute valvular pathology.

Dr. Cameron earned his medical degree from SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, N.Y., and completed his residency in internal medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell School of Medicine in New York. He also holds a PhD in pharmacology from the University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y. His post-graduate training included fellowships in chemical pathology and cardiology research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md., following his PhD, and fellowships in cardiovascular disease and vascular medicine at the University of Rochester after completion of his residency. He was named to the Cleveland Clinic medical staff in 2019.

Dr. Cameron has co-authored more than 90 scientific papers and editorials in peer-reviewed medical journals on platelet disorders and vascular medicine and has been an invited lecturer at numerous international and national medical meetings and conferences. He is also on the American Board of Internal Medicine question committee for Cardiovascular Disease,

Dr. Cameron is also a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the Society of Vascular Medicine. He sits on various counsels of the American Heart Association. He is a frequent peer reviewer for multiple medical journals including the British Medical Journal, the American Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Circulation, Circulation Research, JACC, the Journal of Clinical Investigation, and the Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis. He is also an Associate Editor of Vascular Medicine.