Matthew DeCamp, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
email: Matthew.DeCamp@cuanschutz.edu
phone: (303) 724-4098
office: Fulginiti 202
Education:
- Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (BS 2000, Biochemistry Honors)
- Duke University, Durham, NC (MD 2008, Medical Scientist Training Program)
- Duke University, Durham, NC (PhD 2007, philosophy)
- Internship/Residency: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (2010)
- Post-doctoral Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (2013, Greenwall Fellowship in Bioethics & Health Policy and General Internal Medicine)
Matthew DeCamp,
MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities
and Division of General Internal Medicine. A practicing internist, health
services researcher and philosopher, Dr. DeCamp employs both empirical and
conceptual methods to identify and solve cutting edge problems at the interface
of health care, policy and bioethics. Special emphases of his research include
engaging patients in health care organizational decision-making, ethical issues
in artificial intelligence (AI), and global health (with a focus on short-term global health ethics). He serves as
Director of Research Ethics for the Colorado Clinical and Translational
Sciences Institute (CCTSI) and is a member of the Partnership of
Academicians and Communities for Translation (PACT) Council of the CCTSI.
Along with other research activities, during
2022-2023, Dr. DeCamp is Principal Investigator (with Donald Nease and Spero
Manson) of a grant examining the social, ethical, and behavioral implications of COVID-19
testing in diverse Colorado
communities. In addition, he has two active projects on artificial
intelligence in health care: one, as Principal Investigator of an NIH/NINR
R01 on the use of AI-based prognostication in palliative care and another
as Principal Investigator of a Greenwall Foundation Making a Difference grant examining ethics
and chatbots.
Recent projects have included (with Hillary
Lum and Stacy Fischer) a supplement to the Palliative Care Research Cooperative examining the social, cultural, and ethical
factors that promote COVID-19 vaccination among the understudied, underserved,
underrepresented population of home health aides nationally and a bioethics
supplement within the UJMT consortium (with
Benjamin Chi, Valerie Paz Soldan, Lameck Chinula, and Limbanazo Matandika) to
develop new training materials on “decolonizing” global health. In 2022, he
completed a project, with Co-PI Dr. Anthony So,
a Greenwall Foundation funded project examining ethical challenges in the mass drug administration of antibiotics globally -
findings are available here. After
original funding from an NIH bioethics supplement, Dr. DeCamp continues
to serve as Ethics & Engagement Advisor for the Palliative Care Research
Cooperative Group.
In Spring 2022, he taught a semester-long course,
Global Health, Bioethics, and Human Rights, for the Certificate in Health Humanities and Ethics in the Graduate School.
Dr. DeCamp is an award-winning teacher and mentor, and has more than a decade of service on Institutional Review Boards.