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Dr.
Camargo is a Research Epidemiologist at the Channing Laboratory, Brigham
and Women’s Hospital; Emergency Physician at the Massachusetts General
Hospital; and Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Harvard
University.
 His
interest in epidemiology began in college when he led several
alcohol studies at the Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention.
At present, Dr Camargo works clinically in an urban emergency department,
and has focused his research on asthma/COPD. He serves as PI of the
Multicenter Airway Research Collaboration (MARC), a network of >100
North American emergency departments. MARC has provided unique data
on asthma among minority populations, and led to the creation of a new
network (ED24) focusing on patient advocacy issues and how to increase
timely access to primary care. Dr Camargo also works on several large
cohort studies, looking at risk factors for asthma/COPD in approximately
350,000 men and women. Dr Camargo’s work is funded by grants from NIH,
industry, and private foundations (eg, EMF Center of Excellence Award).
He is an active contributor to the scientific literature, and performs
peer review for more than a dozen journals. He is a member of the Cochrane
Collaboration, and the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program
(NAEPP) Coordinating Committee. He joined the ACE Board to pursue
the broad legislative/policy issues that affect the practice of epidemiology,
and to promote member participation in a variety of public health issues.
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