S. Albert Camacho, M.D.
- Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, School of Medicine
Biography
Dr. Camacho specializes in the early diagnosis and treatment of heart failure. Research is an important part of his work. Dr. Camacho’s research includes clinical trials to develop new devices and medications for heart failure.
According to Dr. Camacho, understanding a patient’s individual needs is essential to treating heart failure. Creating personalized treatment plans is one of the most satisfying parts of his work. Dr. Camacho also works with a team focused on effectively treating patients in the hospital. This includes finding ways to keep people with heart failure from having to come back to the hospital after treatment.
Medical education is another important part of Dr. Camacho’s work. He teaches medical students in the classroom and in the OHSU clinics. Finally, he is involved in the cardiology fellowship program, the final stage in the training of future cardiologists.
Education and training
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Degrees
- M.D., 1982, Loma Linda University School of Medicine
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Residency
- Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, Calif.
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Fellowship
- Cardiology – University of California, San Francisco, California
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Certifications
- American Board of Internal Medicine, internal medicine, 1986
Memberships and associations:
- Fellow of the American College of Cardiology
Publications
Elsevier pure profilePublications
An Evaluation of the Heart Failure Somatic Perception Scale Using Item Response Theory
Journal of Cardiac FailureCharacteristics of Patients Hospitalized with Methamphetamine-Associated Heart Failure
Journal of Cardiovascular NursingCandidate biomarkers of physical frailty in heart failure
European Journal of Cardiovascular NursingBackground and Design of the Biological and Physiological Mechanisms of Symptom Clusters in Heart Failure (BIOMES-HF) Study
Journal of Cardiac FailureCharacterizing Sex Differences in Physical Frailty Phenotypes in Heart Failure
Circulation: Heart FailureOptimizing sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitor use in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
American Journal of Preventive CardiologyEffects of danicamtiv, a novel cardiac myosin activator, in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
European Journal of Heart FailurePreconditioning limits mitochondrial Ca2+ during ischemia in rat hearts
American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory PhysiologyRegulation of thyroid hormone receptor isoforms in physiological and pathological cardiac hypertrophy
Circulation researchChronic dipyridamole therapy produces sustained protection against cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury
American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory PhysiologyRole of slowed Ca2+ transient decline in slowed relaxation during myocardial ischemia
Journal of molecular and cellular cardiologyActivation of ε protein kinase C correlates with a cardioprotective effect of regular ethanol consumption
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of AmericaAlcohol consumption reduces ischemia-reperfusion injury by species- specific signaling in guinea pigs and rats
American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory PhysiologyCa2+ regulates the kinetics of tension development in intact cardiac muscle
American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory PhysiologyChronic alcohol-induced changes in cardiac contractility are not due to changes in the cytosolic Ca2+ transient
American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory PhysiologyThermodynamic limitation for Ca2+ handling contributes to decreased contractile reserve in rat hearts
American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory PhysiologyInorganic phosphate and coronary perfusion pressure mediate contractile dysfunction during mild ischemia
American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory PhysiologyRegular alcohol consumption mimics cardiac preconditioning by protecting against ischemia-reperfusion injury
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of AmericaRole of MgADP in the development of diastolic dysfunction in the intact beating rat heart
Journal of Clinical InvestigationThyroid hormone improves function and Ca2+ handling in pressure overload hypertrophy. Association with increased sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase and α-myosin heavy chain in rat hearts
Journal of Clinical InvestigationAttenuation of postischemic reperfusion injury is related to prevention of [Ca2+](m) overload in rat hearts
American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory PhysiologyCa2+-force relationship of frog skeletal muscle
American Journal of PhysiologyCytosolic and mitochondrial [Ca2+] in whole hearts using indo-1 acetoxymethyl ester
Biophysical JournalImpaired Ca2+ handling is an early manifestation of pressure-overload hypertrophy in rat hearts
American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology