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

  • Degrees

    • M.D., 1982, Loma Linda University School of Medicine
  • Residency

    • Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, Calif.
  • Fellowship

    • Cardiology – University of California, San Francisco, California
  • Certifications

    • American Board of Internal Medicine, internal medicine, 1986

Memberships and associations:

  • Fellow of the American College of Cardiology

Publications

Elsevier pure profile

Publications

  • An Evaluation of the Heart Failure Somatic Perception Scale Using Item Response Theory

    Journal of Cardiac Failure
    1. QUIN E. DENFELD
    2. CORRINE Y. JURGENS
    3. SHIRIN O. HIATT
    4. NATHAN F. DIECKMANN
    5. M. A.R.Y. ROBERTS DAVIS
    6. S. ALBERT CAMACHO
    7. Christopher Chien
    8. Christopher Lee
  • Characteristics of Patients Hospitalized with Methamphetamine-Associated Heart Failure

    Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
    1. Shirin O. Hiatt
    2. S. Albert Camacho
    3. Christopher S. Lee
    4. Nathan F. Dieckmann
    5. Jayne Mitchell
    6. Yasmine Robles
    7. Evan F. Shalen
    8. Beth A. Habecker
    9. Quin E. Denfeld
  • Candidate biomarkers of physical frailty in heart failure

    European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
    1. Quin E. Denfeld
    2. Jonathan Q. Purnell
    3. Christopher Lee
    4. Eric S. Orwoll
    5. S. Albert Camacho
    6. Shirin O. Hiatt
    7. Mary Roberts Davis
    8. Kerri Winters-Stone
    9. William R. Woodward
    10. Beth A. Habecker
  • Background and Design of the Biological and Physiological Mechanisms of Symptom Clusters in Heart Failure (BIOMES-HF) Study

    Journal of Cardiac Failure
    1. Quin E. Denfeld
    2. S. Albert Camacho
    3. Nathan Dieckmann
    4. Shirin O. Hiatt
    5. Mary Roberts Davis
    6. Daniela V. Cramer
    7. Allissah Rupert
    8. Beth A. Habecker
    9. Christopher S. Lee
  • Characterizing Sex Differences in Physical Frailty Phenotypes in Heart Failure

    Circulation: Heart Failure
    1. Quin E. Denfeld
    2. Beth A. Habecker
    3. S. Albert Camacho
    4. Mary Roberts Davis
    5. Nandita Gupta
    6. Shirin O. Hiatt
    7. Mary E. Medysky
    8. Jonathan Q. Purnell
    9. Kerri Winters-Stone
    10. Christopher S. Lee
  • Optimizing sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitor use in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction

    American Journal of Preventive Cardiology
    1. Bruce A. Warden
    2. Johannes Steiner
    3. Albert Camacho
    4. Khoa Nguyen
    5. Jonathan Q. Purnell
    6. P. Barton Duell
    7. Courtney Craigan
    8. Diane Osborn
    9. Sergio Fazio
  • Effects of danicamtiv, a novel cardiac myosin activator, in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction

    European Journal of Heart Failure
    1. Adriaan A. Voors
    2. Jean François Tamby
    3. John G. Cleland
    4. Michael Koren
    5. Leslie B. Forgosh
    6. Dinesh Gupta
    7. Lars H. Lund
    8. Albert Camacho
    9. Ravi Karra
    10. Henk P. Swart
    11. Pierpaolo Pellicori
    12. Frank Wagner
    13. Ray E. Hershberger
    14. Narayana Prasad
    15. Robert Anderson
    16. Anu Anto
    17. Kaylyn Bell
    18. Jay M. Edelberg
    19. Liang Fang
    20. Marcus Henze
    21. Cynthia Kelly
    22. Gregory Kurio
    23. Wanying Li
    24. Kate Wells
    25. Chun Yang
    26. Sam L. Teichman
    27. Carlos L. del Rio
    28. Scott D. Solomon
  • Preconditioning limits mitochondrial Ca2+ during ischemia in rat hearts

    American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology
    1. Lianguo Wang
    2. Gennady Cherednichenko
    3. Lisa Hernandez
    4. Jessica Halow
    5. S. Albert Camacho
    6. Vincent Figueredo
    7. Saul Schaefer
  • Regulation of thyroid hormone receptor isoforms in physiological and pathological cardiac hypertrophy

    Circulation research
    1. Koichiro Kinugawa
    2. Katsunori Yonekura
    3. Ralff C.J. Ribeiro
    4. Yoko Eto
    5. Teruhiko Aoyagi
    6. John D. Baxter
    7. S. Albert Camacho
    8. Michael R. Bristow
    9. Carlin S. Long
    10. Paul C. Simpson
  • Chronic dipyridamole therapy produces sustained protection against cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury

    American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology
    1. Vincent M. Figueredo
    2. Ivan Diamond
    3. Hui Zhong Zhou
    4. S. Albert Camacho
  • Role of slowed Ca2+ transient decline in slowed relaxation during myocardial ischemia

    Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology
    1. Jessica M. Halow
    2. Vincent M. Figueredo
    3. David M. Shames
    4. S. Albert Camacho
    5. Anthony J. Baker
  • Activation 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 America
    1. Masami Miyamae
    2. Manuel M. Rodriguez
    3. S. Albert Camacho
    4. Ivan Diamond
    5. Daria Mochly-Rosen
    6. Vincent M. Figueredo
  • Alcohol consumption reduces ischemia-reperfusion injury by species- specific signaling in guinea pigs and rats

    American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology
    1. Masami Miyamae
    2. S. Albert Camacho
    3. Hui Zhong Zhou
    4. Ivan Diamond
    5. Vincent M. Figueredo
  • Ca2+ regulates the kinetics of tension development in intact cardiac muscle

    American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology
    1. Anthony J. Baker
    2. Vincent M. Figueredo
    3. Edmund C. Keung
    4. S. Albert Camacho
  • Chronic alcohol-induced changes in cardiac contractility are not due to changes in the cytosolic Ca2+ transient

    American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology
    1. Vincent M. Figueredo
    2. Kevin C. Chang
    3. Anthony J. Baker
    4. S. Albert Camacho
  • Thermodynamic limitation for Ca2+ handling contributes to decreased contractile reserve in rat hearts

    American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology
    1. Rong Tian
    2. Jessica M. Halow
    3. Markus Meyer
    4. Wolfgang H. Dillmann
    5. Vincent M. Figueredo
    6. Joanne S. Ingwall
    7. S. Albert Camacho
  • Inorganic phosphate and coronary perfusion pressure mediate contractile dysfunction during mild ischemia

    American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology
    1. Masami Miyamae
    2. S. Albert Camacho
    3. William D. Rooney
    4. Gunner Modin
    5. Hui Zhong Zhou
    6. Michael W. Weiner
    7. Vincent M. Figueredo
  • Regular alcohol consumption mimics cardiac preconditioning by protecting against ischemia-reperfusion injury

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    1. Masami Miyamae
    2. Ivan Diamond
    3. Michael W. Weiner
    4. S. Albert Camacho
    5. Vincent M. Figueredo
  • Role of MgADP in the development of diastolic dysfunction in the intact beating rat heart

    Journal of Clinical Investigation
    1. Rong Tian
    2. Michael E. Christe
    3. Matthias Spindler
    4. James C.A. Hopkins
    5. Jessica M. Halow
    6. S. Albert Camacho
    7. Joanne S. Ingwall
  • Thyroid 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 Investigation
    1. Kevin C. Chang
    2. Vincent M. Figueredo
    3. Joop H.M. Schreur
    4. Ken Ichi Kariya
    5. Michael W. Weiner
    6. Paul C. Simpson
    7. S. Albert Camacho
  • Attenuation of postischemic reperfusion injury is related to prevention of [Ca2+](m) overload in rat hearts

    American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology
    1. Masami Miyamae
    2. S. Albert Camacho
    3. Michael W. Weiner
    4. Vincent M. Figueredo
  • Ca2+-force relationship of frog skeletal muscle

    American Journal of Physiology
    1. David M. Shames
    2. Anthony J. Baker
    3. Michael W. Weiner
    4. S. Albert Camacho
  • Cytosolic and mitochondrial [Ca2+] in whole hearts using indo-1 acetoxymethyl ester

    Biophysical Journal
    1. Joop H.M. Schreur
    2. Vincent M. Figueredo
    3. Masami Miyamae
    4. David M. Shames
    5. Anthony J. Baker
    6. S. Albert Camacho
  • Impaired Ca2+ handling is an early manifestation of pressure-overload hypertrophy in rat hearts

    American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology
    1. Kevin C. Chang
    2. Joop H.M. Schreur
    3. Michael W. Weiner
    4. S. Albert Camacho