Dr. James E. Camel, MD

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Get to know General Surgeon Dr. James E. Camel, who serves patients in Torrance and San Pedro, California.

Dr. Camel is a physician with the Association of South Bay Surgeons, operating out of the offices in Torrance and San Pedro, California. He is interested in advanced laparoscopic techniques and regularly performs endocrine, cancer, neck, breast, colon, and rectal surgery.

Active in many hospital committees, he currently serves as Chief of Surgery at Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center – Torrance. He can also be found on staff at Torrance Memorial Medical Center, where he performed the first robotic single site gallbladder surgery and the first transanal laparoscopic rectal surgery, and at Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center – San Pedro.

Graduating with James Scholar Honors, Dr. Camel earned his medical degree from the University of Illinois School of Medicine in 1988. He then went on to complete residencies in general surgery at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas and the University of Southern California, Los Angeles County Medical Center. He further completed a fellowship in pediatric surgery at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.

Subsequent to his training, the doctor attained board certification in general surgery through the American Board of Surgery (ABS). The ABS is an independent, non-profit organization located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded for the purpose of certifying surgeons who have met a defined standard of education, training, and knowledge.

Among his professional affiliations, Dr. Camel is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the American Society of Breast Surgeons.

General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, appendix and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland. A general surgeon performs a wide range of abdominal surgeries for many forms of intestinal and abdominal wall neoplasms, gallbladder disease, gastric and pancreatic disease. They follow the patient through critical care and surgical recovery all the way to outpatient care.

Named Super Doctors® in Southern California for 2022, Dr. Camel has published multiple scientific papers in well known medical journals.

On a more personal note, he speaks English and Spanish.

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