Dr. Carlos Arturo Camargo is a distinguished leader in epidemiological research and emergency medicine with significant contributions to public health science. He holds the prestigious Conn Chair in Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and serves as Professor of Emergency Medicine, Medicine, and Epidemiology at Harvard University. Dr. Camargo has maintained his faculty position at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard since 1993, achieving full professorship in 2012. His educational journey includes a BA from Stanford University, MPH from UC Berkeley, MD from UC San Francisco, and DrPH from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, establishing a robust foundation across multiple disciplines. Early in his career, he conducted pioneering research on the health effects of moderate alcohol consumption, which formed the basis of his doctoral thesis at Harvard School of Public Health.
Since 1996, Dr. Camargo's primary research focus has centered on respiratory and allergy diseases, where he has made groundbreaking contributions to understanding asthma, COPD, and food allergies. In 1998, his team published the seminal discovery of a strong association between obesity and the risk of developing asthma, a finding that has reshaped clinical approaches to respiratory disease prevention worldwide. As founder of the Emergency Medicine Network (EMNet) in 1996, he established a clinical research network spanning over 220 emergency departments that has completed numerous observational studies and randomized trials. His extensive body of work has garnered over 122,000 citations, reflecting his substantial impact on the fields of respiratory medicine, allergy research, and emergency care, with particular focus on respiratory emergencies, health policy issues, and mental health interventions.
Dr. Camargo has served as past president of the American College of Epidemiology and has contributed to numerous national committees related to nutrition, respiratory diseases, and public health policy. As Director of the EMNet Coordinating Center at MGH, he continues to lead multicenter projects that advance evidence-based emergency medicine practice across the United States. His leadership extends to chairing the Steering Committee of the Emergency Medicine Network, where he guides research priorities for one of the largest emergency medicine research collaborations in the country. Dr. Camargo remains actively engaged in mentoring the next generation of researchers while continuing to publish influential work in top medical journals, with his ongoing research shaping clinical practice and healthcare policy nationwide through rigorous epidemiological investigation and translational application.
