Dr. Cam Patterson serves as Advisor at Excelerate Health Ventures. He was the Chief Operating Officer of New York Presbyterian Hospital at Weill Cornell Medical Center. Previously, he was the Associate Dean of UNC Healthcare Entrepreneurship, Chief of Cardiology and Physician-in-Chief of the UNC Center for Heart and Vascular Care, and a healthcare investor who has launched two start-ups. He also serves as Investment Committee Member at NewYork-Presbyterian Ventures. He was Director of UNC McAllister Heart Institute. Dr. Patterson is the Ernest and Hazel Craige Distinguished Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine. He is an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association and a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Clinical Scientist in Translational Research. Dr. Patterson's research programs include the areas of angiogenesis and vascular development, cardiac hypertrophy, protein quality control, and translational genomics and metabolomics. He holds an MBA from UNC and M.D. from Emory University. He is also a Board Member at BioMedomics.