Mark Cameron

Mark Joseph Cameron, (born March 29, 1969) is a Canadian Flight Paramedic who was awarded the Medal of Bravery in 2014 for direct line of duty action, and the Meritorious Service Medal in 2017 for his work in Syria.

Cameron is a founding member (with Khaled Almilaji and Jay Dahman) and former Vice President of Canadian International Medical Relief Organization (CIMRO), an internationally known non-governmental organization. CIMRO has been involved in numerous medical missions inside Syria helping with critical front-line combat medicine as well as vaccination and chemical response training.

He is currently a course director at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada In 2017, he obtained a post-graduate certificate at Harvard University where he specialized in global mental health and disaster planning.

After forming CIMRO, Mark and his team frequently went on mission trips to China, Cambodia, Guyana and more known, Syria, where they were tasked with providing urgent medical relief and education to injured children and civilians.

On one of their trips inside Syria post-civil war, Mark and their team brought along the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) crew to cover the crisis.

Awards and recognition

Medal of Bravery (2014)