Professor Fergus Cameron

contact details

Fergus CameronProfessor Fergus Cameron
Diabetes
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Royal Children's Hospital
Flemington Road
Parkville Victoria 3052

T +61 3 9345 6972
F +61 3 9347 7763
E fergus.cameron@rch.org.au

biography

Fergus Cameron is the Head of Diabetes Services at the Royal Children's Hospital and group leader of the Diabetes research group at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. He oversees the activities of the largest paediatric diabetes clinic in Australia, caring for children from a few weeks of age through to 18 years old. A/Professor Cameron trained at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, The Hospital for Sick Children, London and The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed papers, 12 textbook chapters and 23 non-peer reviewed papers. He has produced six DVDs relating to diabetes, two of which have won international awards.

He is the only Southern Hemisphere participant in the Hvidoere Study Group on Childhood Diabetes and the International Consensus Guidelines on insulin pump use in children and adolescents, and is the Australasian Editor for the International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology. He has obtained competitive grant funding both nationally and internationally for his ongoing research interests in diabetes and has been a member of the National Diabetes Register Management Committee, (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Canberra) and the Diabetes Expert Advisory Group (Department of Human Services, Victoria).