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Amanda Doreson, Project Manager | February 27, 2007
Marc A. Camacho, MD, instructor in radiology at Harvard Medical School, has been named chief of the newly established section of emergency radiology in the department of radiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC).
Camacho, a resident of Lexington, is an expert in trauma imaging and CT angiography and CT utilization practices. His research interests include utilization of pulmonary CT angiography for pulmonary embolus in the emergency department and CT angiography for blunt cerebrovascular injury.
At BIDMC, his focus will be on expanding emergency radiological services to include 24/7 imaging availability by attending physicians for BIDMC's Berenson Emergency Department -- a Level I trauma center.
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Camacho received his medical degree from the University of South Florida College of Medicine in Tampa, FL, and a masters of science degree in biomedical engineering from Boston University. He came to BIDMC from Virginia Commonwealth University Health System/Medical College of Virginia Hospital in Richmond, where he was chief of the emergency radiology section and an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is a major patient care, teaching and research affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and ranks third in National Institutes of Health funding among independent hospitals nationwide. BIDMC is clinically affiliated with the Joslin Diabetes Center and is a founding member of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. BIDMC is the official hospital of the Boston Red Sox.
