Clare Cameron, MD, PhD

I grew up in the Midwest before moving eastward to Yale for college. After brief experimentation with premed coursework, I discovered this was not (yet) the path for me and ultimately studied cultural anthropology. I then worked for the Clinton Foundation's HIV/AIDS Initiative, which led me to reconsider medicine, and I returned to the Midwest for post-bac coursework before eventually finding my way out to California for medical school at Stanford. During my first year of medical school, I enrolled in an anthropology seminar, a decision that happily influenced the next decade of my life. I decided to (temporarily) leave medical school and join the joint UCSF-UC Berkeley PhD program in medical anthropology. My work as an anthropologist undoubtedly brought me to psychiatry, for reasons I newly discover each day.