Professor Peter Cameron

MBBS, MD, FACEM

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Professor Peter Cameron is head of the Prehospital, Emergency and Trauma group within the Department. He is also Academic Director of the Emergency and Trauma Centre, The Alfred Hospital, Head of the Victorian State Trauma Registry and Associate Director of the National Trauma Research Institute. His main research interests include trauma epidemiology, injury prevention and management, prehospital care and health services and systems research. Past appointments include Professor of Emergency Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Chief of Service, Prince of Wales Hospital Hong Kong; Professor/Director of Emergency Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, and Director of Emergency Medicine, Geelong Hospital. He is also a past president of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine (ACEM), coeditor of the Adult Textbook of Emergency Medicine and a senior examiner for ACEM. He completed his medical undergraduate training at Melbourne University in 1981 and fellowship training in Emergency Medicine at Western Hospital, Melbourne 1987. An MD in Trauma Epidemiology was completed through Monash University in 1997.