Cameron Baston

Cameron Baston’s research focuses on medical education and on the integration of emerging technology and innovation into clinical training and decision making, work centered on point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), and now is more generalized to the development and clinical translation of medical devices. He is a named inventor on a wearable sensor designed to recognize and respond to opioid overdose. At the PAIR Center he applied cost-effectiveness modeling to critical care delivery, including an analysis of strategies to increase the use of prone positioning in severe ARDS, and served on the Committee for Antiracism and Social Change, work that continues to shape how he approaches the direction of medical care and research.

Cameron did his undergraduate work in mechanical engineering at MIT before working in automotive sensor design, environmental and economic policy modeling, and plasma physics. He received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College and completed residency and chief residency in internal medicine at the University of Washington. He came to Penn for fellowships in pulmonary and critical care medicine and in emergency medicine clinical ultrasound, and for a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology. His teaching has been recognized with the Department of Medicine fellows award, the Donna McCurdy educator’s award, the Family Medicine faculty award, and the Maurice Attie Medical Educator Award. In 2025 the Pennsylvania Medical Society recognized the overdose detection device with its Innovation Award. He serves on the editorial boards of Critical Care Medicine, CHEST, and The Ultrasound Journal, and is Associate Editor for The POCUS Journal.

He is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, and Faculty Associate Director of Penn Health-Tech, where he advises innovators building early-stage medical devices and works on programming to incorporate clinicians into health tech innovation. He is also Assistant Program Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellowship, Director of POCUS at the Michael Crescenz Philadelphia VA Medical Center, and Associate Director of the Penn Point of Care Ultrasound Alliance.

Cameron lives in a pink house in West Philadelphia with his much more impressive and skilled wife, two daughters, and Granola Fluffernutter the First, a Saint Bernard and poodle hybrid.