Dr Donnie Cameron is a physicist who specialises in developing and applying new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy (MRS) methods. He obtained a Bachelor’s in Physical Sciences and a Master’s in Medical Physics from the University of Aberdeen—an institution fundamental to the development of MRI—and he received his Doctorate in Medical Imaging from that same centre in 2013. During his Ph.D. studies he spent a summer with the MRS Group at ETH Zurich, and this led to fruitful collaborations on proton MRS in the heart. After his Ph.D. he joined the Longitudinal Studies Section at the National Institute on Aging in the US, where his remit was to develop new MRI and MRS methods for studying skeletal muscle changes in a large ageing cohort. He returned to the UK in 2016 as a Senior Research Associate at the University of East Anglia (UEA), and was ultimately promoted to Lecturer in Clinical Magnetic Resonance Physics in 2017. He later left the UK to join Dr Hermien Kan at Leiden University Medical Centre, where he investigated new methods for quantifying skeletal muscle physiology and fibre architecture in muscular dystrophies. Donnie is now based at the Department of Medical Imaging at Radboud UMC, Nijmegen, where he is developing a new imaging research programme for studying neuromuscular disorders in general.

Donnie has received grant funding from numerous sources: Prinses Beatrix Spierfonds is supporting his continuing work on muscle fibre size and permeability imaging in Becker muscular dystrophy, and  Action Arthritis and the Gwen Fish Orthopaedic Trust have funded studies on musculoskeletal changes in rheumatoid arthritis.