DR CAMERON BELL, MD, AM, FRACP

Dr Cameron Bell AM is a highly qualified, experienced and caring physician who enjoys seeing his patients progress into great health. He has an ongoing special interest in improving colonoscopy standards nationally and runs training sessions to enable other endoscopists to achieve better results in their own practice. Dr Bell has many decades of working with patients and physicians at one of Australia’s foremost teaching hospitals, Royal North Shore Hospital and is known as a diligent, professional and compassionate physician.

TERTIARY EDUCATION POSTGRADUATE QUALIFICATIONS

  • 1983 Bachelor Degree (MB, BS) University of Sydney

  • 1996 Doctorate of Medicine (MD) University of Sydney

  • 1990 Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians

CURRENT POSITION & PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS

2011-2018 Senior Staff Specialist

Department of Gastroenterology

Director of Endoscopy

Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney

2004-2011 Head, Department of Gastroenterology

Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney

1994-2019 Conjoint Senior Lecturer

Department of Medicine, University of Sydney

Senior Staff Specialist

Department of Gastroenterology,

Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney

PROCEDURAL CERTIFICATION

Recognition of Training in Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Colonoscopy, ERCP

By Conjoint Committee for Accreditation of Training in Endoscopy

Recertification in Colonoscopy, GESA 2017

HONORARY POSITIONS & MEMBERSHIPS

Honorary Treasurer

Gastroenterological Society of Australia 2009-2011

Chief Medical Advisor

“It’s Crunch Time” (National Public and Professional Bowel Cancer Awareness Campaign of behalf of Federal Department of Health & Ageing)

Honorary Secretary

Gastroenterological Society of Australia 1999-2003

Honorary Secretary

Sydney Gut Club 1994 - 1996

Member, Gastroenterological Society of Australia 1990-2019

GUIDELINE DEVELOPMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Chairperson, Clinical Practice Guidelines for Surveillance Colonoscopy (Cancer Council Australia/NH&MRC) 2011

  • Deputy Chair, Management Committee: Clinical practice guidelines for the prevention, early detection and management of colorectal cancer 2017

  • Chairperson, Clinical Practice Guidelines for Surveillance Colonoscopy Revision (Cancer Council Australia/NH&MRC) 2017-2018

PROCEDURAL TRAINING RESPONSIBILITIES

  • National Lead, Train the Colonoscopy Trainer Program, National Endoscopy Training Initiative (NETI) 2009-2018

  • Chair, National Endoscopy Training Initiative, 2014-2018

  • Developer & Faculty, NETI Colonoscopy Leaders Update Courses since 2016

  • Developer & Faculty, NETI Practical Quality Colonoscopy Skills Update Courses since 2016

  • Convenor & Faculty, National ERCP NETI training workshops 2009, 2010, 2013, 2016

  • Member International ERCP Training Consortium 2017-2018

ADVISORY GROUP, BOARD & COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS

  • Member, NSW Cancer Council Leading Better Value Care Working Group, 2018-2019

  • Member, Colonoscopy Clinical Care Standard Topic Working Group, Australian

    Commission on Safety & Quality in Health Care 2017-2018

  • Clinical Advisory Group, National Bowel Cancer Screening Program 2012-2018

  • Project Advisory Group, National Bowel Cancer Screening Program 2007-2011

  • Australian Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Association Quality Working Group, National Bowel Cancer Screening Program 2007-2010

  • Director (Founding), Bowel Cancer Australia, 2000-2017

  • Hospital Clinical Redevelopment Advisory Committee, Royal North Shore Hospital, 2005-2007

  • Director, Bowral Day Surgery 2000-2007

AWARDS

  • GESA Distinguished Service Award 2017

  • GESA Honorary Fellow 2021

  • PaLMS (RNSH) Excellence in Teaching Award (Undergraduate Medical Student) 2005

  • RNSH Young Investigator Award (Clinical) 1991

  • Member of the Order of Australia 2025

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

  • 1997-1999 Co-investigator, NHMRC Project Grant “Microvascular changes in E. coli O157:H7 colitis”

  • 1995-1998 Chief Investigator, NHMRC Priming Grant “Mediators of epithelial dysfunction in chronic colitis”

  • 1995-1997 Co-investigator, NHMRC Project Grant “Pathophysiology of Acute Colitis”

  • 1992-1993 Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Clinical Research Fellow, University of Calgary, Canada

  • 1991 Australian NHMRC Medical Postgraduate Scholar