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Cam Patterson

Cam Patterson MBA, MD

Internal Medicine, Psychology
Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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Dr. Cam Patterson, MBA, MD is a Co-Founder, Chancellor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Dr. Cam Patterson was a Harold Sterling Vanderbilt Scholar and studied Psychology and English at Vanderbilt University, graduating Summa Cum Laude. Dr. Patterson subsequently attended Emory University School of Medicine, graduating with induction in the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Emory University Hospitals. He became the Chief Resident at Grady Memorial Hospital at Emory University in 1992, supervising over 200 house officers in 4 hospitals. He completed 3 years of research fellowship under the guidance of Edgar Haber at the Harvard School of Public Health, developing an independent research program in vascular biology and angiogenesis that was supported by an NIH fellowship. In 1996, he accepted his first faculty position at the University of Texas Medical Branch, and in 2000 Dr. Patterson was recruited to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to become the founding director of the UNC McAllister Heart Institute. 

In 2005, he also became the chief of the Division of Cardiology at UNC. Dr. Patterson was the Ernest and Hazel Craige Distinguished Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, and he has been recognized at UNC with the Ruth and Phillip Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement. He is an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association and a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Clinical Scientist in Translational Research. He is an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Association of University Cardiologists. He received his MBA from the UNC Kenan-Flagler School of Business in 2008. In 2014, Dr. Patterson became the Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill-Cornell Medical Center where he was responsible for a $2B/year clinical enterprise. He left NYP in 2018 to become Chancellor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, the only academic medical center in the state of Arkansas.