Robert B. Cameron MD

Dr. Robert Cameron is the director of thoracic surgery at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and a world leader in advancing the treatment of pleural mesothelioma cancer. His innovative work in refining surgical techniques used in the treatment of mesothelioma has led to longer survival and better quality of life for patients everywhere.

Cameron serves veterans with mesothelioma as chief of thoracic surgery at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Los Angeles. He is also a scientific advisor for the Pacific Heart, Lung & Blood Institute, which includes the Pacific Mesothelioma Center. He was one of the first to strongly lobby against using extrapleural pneumonectomy, the radical removal of a lung, as a surgical option. Cameron instead proposed the lung-sparing pleurectomy and decortication as the surgery of choice.