CAMERON D. THOMAS, Pharm.D., Ph.D.
Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy, Athens
Assistant Professor
Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy, Athens
Faculty Fellow of the UGA Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy, Athens
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Florida – 2025
NHGRI T32 PARADIGM Fellowship in Genomic Medicine, University of Florida – 2021
PGY-2 Clinical Pharmacogenetics Residency, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital – 2018
PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency, UF Health Jacksonville – 2017
Doctor of Pharmacy, University of Florida – 2016
Associate of Arts, Florida Gateway College – 2012
Areas of Expertise
Dr. Cameron D. Thomas, PharmD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical & Administrative Pharmacy at the University of Georgia. Dr. Thomas earned his PharmD from the University of Florida and then completed a PGY-1 Clinical Pharmacy residency at UF Health Jacksonville and a PGY-2 Clinical Pharmacogenetics residency at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. He then earned his PhD from the University of Florida, focusing on precision medicine approaches to antiplatelet therapy following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
Dr. Thomas’ research leverages pharmacogenomics to evaluate inter-patient variability in drug response and artificial intelligence to identify patients at increased risk of adverse effects. His work encompasses multiple therapeutic areas and focuses on improving patient outcomes through the integration of pharmacogenomics, clinical risk stratification, and advanced computational methods. In cardiovascular medicine, his research has focused on optimizing dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) through CYP2C19-guided P2Y12 inhibitor selection and developing and evaluating clinical-genetic risk stratification tools to predict untoward drug-related outcomes.
A key component of Dr. Thomas’ work involves applying natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning techniques to electronic health records. He has developed NLP algorithms to extract and annotate bleeding events from unstructured clinical narratives and created hybrid data strategies that integrate structured and unstructured data for enhanced adverse event detection and risk prediction.
Dr. Thomas’ research efforts focus on developing and validating models for individualizing pharmacotherapy and understanding the influence of genetics on treatment outcomes, ultimately aiming to balance therapeutic efficacy and safety through data-driven, patient-specific treatment strategies.
Honors, Awards, and Achievements
American Society for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics Presidential Trainee Award – 2025
DeSantis Graduate Student Research Award in Precision Medicine – 2024
Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award – 2022
American Society for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics Presidential Trainee Award – 2022
American Society for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics Presidential Trainee Award – 2021
American Society for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics Presidential Trainee Award – 2020
American College of Clinical Pharmacy Research Fellow Trainee Award – 2020
Pharmacogenomics Global Research Network Trainee Award – 2019
