Camilo E Fadul, MD
Neurology - Neuro Oncology
Bio & Overview
Camilo E. Fadul, MD, is a neuro-oncologist whose interests include developing innovative treatments for primary brain tumors and improving care for patients experiencing neurological complications due to systemic cancer.
He was born and raised in Bogota, Colombia, where he earned his medical degree from the School of Medicine of Universidad del Rosario. He completed his rotatory internship at Hospital Militar Central, followed by a one-year social service tour in rural Colombia.
He then completed his neurology residency at the Hospital Militar Central and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire, followed by a neuropathology and neuro-oncology fellowship at Vanderbilt University and a neuro-oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Before joining UVA Health, he spent more than 20 years as the director of the neuro-oncology program at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at the Dartmouth Cancer Center.
Academic Information
- Department
- Neurology
- Academic Role
- Professor
- Division
- Neurology
- Research Interests
- My areas of scientific interest include new therapeutic modalities for primary brain tumors and the management of neurologic complications associated with systemic cancer.
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- Spanish, English
- Age Groups Seen
- Adults (21-65)
Older Adults (65+)
- Primary Education
- Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Senora del Rosario Facultad de Medicina (1980), Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates
- Residencies
- Military Hospital-Bogota (1985), Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (1994)
- Fellowship
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (1987)
- Certification
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Neurology)
- Additional Specialties
- Neuro-Oncology, Neurology
Highlights
Profile
My name is Camilo Fadul. I'm a neurologist with UVA Health. I take care of patients in the clinic and the patients who come to see me are patients who either have a primary brain tumor or they have a metastasis, meaning a spread of their cancer from, for example, the lung to the brain. We also see patients, for example, who are going to receive chemotherapy or radiation therapy, and there is a concern that those patients can have more toxicity associated to the treatment. So that's one of my big roles, I think more educating and being more like a coach in a sense. I fell in love with neurology just because of the ability of getting the information from the patient, being able to examine the patient and then be able to localize in the nervous system where the lesion was and then make it a differential diagnosis. Patients are coming not only for my expertise, but by the expertise of the group within our institution. We try to treat the patients in the same way that we will treat ourselves or a family member. And so they're coming here looking for treatments that not only prolong life, but also that would provide them with an improved quality of life.
Awards
2017-2020 Best Doctors in America® List
Reviews
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