James Cameron (physician)

Sir James Davidson Stuart Cameron, CBE TD FRSE (1900 – 1969) was a Scottish physician of note.

After briefly serving as a junior doctor at both Edenhall and Highbury Hospitals in England[3] He returned to Edinburgh to lecture in Physiology (under Prof Edward Sharpey Schafer) at the university from 1926 to 1939, being granted an MD in 1932 following his thesis on renal function, which won the gold medal for the year.

During the Second World War he served first in the Middle East and then in southern India, and had a distinguished war service, rising to the rank of Brigadier in the Royal Army Medical Corps[7] and honorary consultant to the India and Burma Offices by 1946.

[9] Following retiral from Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, from 1965 to 1965 he was both Professor and Director of the Institute of Post Graduate Medicine in Dacca, Pakistan.

A sum of £5000 was left to the college by Sir James Cameron to form a fund, called the Sir James Cameron Medal, the interest to be used to assist in financing the St Andrew's Day Festival for educational purposes.