Robert Beekman

Cincinnati Childrens Hospital, United States of America

Robert H. Beekman is Professor of Pediatric Cardiology at Cincinatti Childrens Hospital.

His academic interests relate to cardiac catheterization, and he has made numerous scholarly contributions in the field of hemodynamic assessment and transcatheter intervention for congenital heart disease. He is also leading a national collaborative project for Quality Improvement in Pediatric Cardiology. His research interests focus on interventional catheterization in congenital heart disease, in particular cardiac catheterization, interventional cardiology, and quality improvement.

Professor Beekman has been active in the cardiology community, locally and nationally. Currently he is the Chair of the Section on Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Southwest Ohio Chapter of the American Heart Association, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Cincinnati Children's Heart Association. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association. He Associate Editor of Congenital Heart Disease, Contributing Editor of theHeart.org (Internet Journal), and an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Interventional Cardiology. Professor Beekman has been a Member of the Executive Committee and the Training Committee of the American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Section Head: Cardiovascular Disorders > Congenital Heart Disease (since 09 August 2007)

Robert Beekman is a Section Head for Congenital Heart Disease, part of the CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.