Vicky Cameron | |
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 Cameron in November 2020 | |
| Alma mater | Christchurch School of Medicine |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Christchurch School of Medicine Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
| Thesis | The role of brain hormones in the regulation of hypothalmic-pituitary secretion during acute haemorrhagic stress (1988) |
Anne Victoria Cameron ONZM is a New Zealand medical researcher specialising in molecular endocrinology.
Cameron was working as a scientific officer at the Christchurch School of Medicine, University of Otago, when she completed her PhD entitled The Role of Brain Hormones in the Regulation of Hypothalamic-Pituitary Secretion During Acute Haemorrhagic Stress in 1990. After a Fogarty Postdoctoral Research Fellowship-supported postdoc at the Salk Institute, in San Diego, she returned to Christchurch in 1993, rising to full professor.
In the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours, Cameron was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to health. [1] [2]
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