Dr. Cameron Dezfulian is a senior faculty member in Pediatrics and Anesthesiology at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). He is board certified in both adult and pediatric critical care medicine, having received his MD in 1999 from Duke, combined internal medicine-pediatrics training at University of Michigan (1999-2003) and completed adult and pediatric critical care fellowships at the NIH and Johns Hopkins (2003-2008). This background provided an excellent synergy to serve as the inaugural Inpatient Director for the Texas Children’s Hospital’s (TCH) Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) unit where he was recruited in Summer 2020. In May 2024, Dr. Dezfulian shifted to the role of director of ACHD program development to improve awareness of the TCH program through presentations and publications, and more globally raise awareness about the critical care issues faced by ACHD patients. Dr. Dezfulian presently cares for adults in the ACHD ICU and Baylor St. Luke’s medical center CTICU and children in the TCH pediatric ICU. In the past, he has served as attending in adult and pediatric ICUs focused on cardiac, medical, surgical, neurological, trauma/burn and obstetric disease.

Prior to BCM/TCH, Dr. Dezfulian spent 13 years as a translational researcher in cardiac arrest post-resuscitation care at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Miami. He was funded by the NIH most of this time and has published over 120 research articles cited nearly 7000 times. Dr. Dezfulian has been most active within the AHA, serving as a member or liaison to the Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) committee for 8 years and having chaired several scientific statements and CPR guidelines. He is the chair for the annual AHA Resuscitation Sciences Symposium program committee. His contributions to cardiac critical care include teaching the SCCM master course on hemodynamics and monitoring, board review lectures on cardiovascular critical care (adult and pediatrics) for the American Physician Institute and serving in the Society of Critical Care Cardiology publication committee. Dr. Dezfulian is active in the Christian Medical Dental Association, hosting student groups from Pitt and BCM and teaching medical missionaries at annual conferences and through consultation for several ICUs in Africa. He serves locally at Casa El Buen Samaritano, a free clinic in Missouri City, TX. Dr. Dezfulian is married to Audra and has 3 children: Emily (13 yo), Nicholas (11 yo) and Michael (6 yo).