Camille Hancock Friesen is a pediatric and adult cardiac surgeon, the Director of Undergraduate Medical Research in the Division of Cardiac Surgery and the President of the Maritime Heart Center. She works at the IWK and the QEII Health Sciences Centre Halifax Infirmary. She completed her FRCS in General Surgery in 1998 (University of Alberta) followed by an FRCS in Cardiac Surgery in 2000 (Dalhousie University) and is American Board certified in General Surgery (2003).
She completed an Advanced Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard, in 2002 and began a combined adult and pediatric cardiac surgical practice at Dalhousie University in 2002. She is an Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University with a research interest in the area of transplantation immunology supported by the Capital District Health Authority New Investigator Award and by the Department of Surgery.
She is currently working in a rat model of heterotopic cardiac allograft prolongation using oral exposure to antigens.
