David Campbell

David Campbell is a vascular surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital and the Joslin Diabetes Center, and Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Campbell studied at Stonyhurst College, Clare College Cambridge and Guys Hospital Medical School, and then came to the U.S. to do his residency on the Harvard Surgical Service at the New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston. Midway through his residency he did a year back at Guys during which he obtained his FRCS. After residency he did a vascular fellowship in Houston with Dr. Stanley Crawford where he learned to do thoraco-abdominal aneurysm resections.

He returned to the Deaconnes Hospital and Joslin Diabetes Center where he built a large referral practice. A pioneer in distal bypass surgery, he has performed nearly 4,000 distal bypasses. In recent years he has trained in endovascular surgery and now performs a significant number of his cases using less invasive techniques.

He has co-authored numerous papers and book chapters and given lectures all over the world. He formed a non-profit to work in Vietnam and has helped the physicians there set up a diabetic foot center at Hospital 115 in Ho Chi Minh City and Bach Mail Hospital in Hanol.

When his children were young he was director of Boys Soccer for the town of Brookline and coached the top travel team for many years until his youngest child was 14. He remains an enthusiastic sportsman playing golf, biking and boating. He sings in a men’s Welsh choir in Boston that has sung at the Albert Hall in London a number of times and at Carnegie Hall. He serves on the board of the Yale Alumni Choir and has sung with them in England, South Africa, Cuba, Istanbul, Armenia, Georgia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Vietnam. In the last few years he has twice been to China as Visiting Professor.