Rate My Professor Matthew DeCamp

Matthew DeCamp, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities and the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, a position he has held since 2019. He also serves as Director of Research Ethics for the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute and Associate Director for Community Engagement. A practicing internist, Dr. DeCamp earned a BS in Biochemistry with honors from Purdue University in 2000, an MD and PhD in Philosophy through Duke University's Medical Scientist Training Program in 2008, completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Michigan in 2010, and held postdoctoral fellowships in bioethics and health policy at Johns Hopkins University and Georgetown University, as well as general internal medicine at Johns Hopkins from 2010 to 2013. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins from 2013 to 2019 and core faculty at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.

Dr. DeCamp employs empirical and conceptual methods to address problems at the interface of healthcare, policy, and bioethics, with research emphases on ethical issues in artificial intelligence, patient engagement in organizational decision-making, and global health ethics. Key publications include "What patients want from healthcare chatbots: insights from a mixed-methods study" (Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2025), "Artificial Intelligence in the Provision of Health Care" (Annals of Internal Medicine, 2025), "Engagement Methods in Brain Tumor Genomic Research: Multimethod Comparative Study" (Journal of Participatory Medicine, 2025), and "Adaptive Machine Learning as Research: Does the Cure Fit the Disease?" (American Journal of Bioethics, 2024). His awards include the University of Colorado School of Medicine Department of Medicine "Rising Star" Award (2022), Fellow of the American College of Physicians (2016), Barry M. Goldwater Scholar (1998-2000), and University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Research Collaboration Team Award (2024). Dr. DeCamp has served on the Society for General Internal Medicine Ethics Committee as Co-Chair and Chair Elect, the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, and institutional review boards at Duke and Johns Hopkins.