Robert H. Beekman, III, MD
Appointment
Professor of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Email
rbeekman@cchmc.org
Phone
513-636-7072
Fax
513-636-2410
Bio
Robert H. Beekman, III, M.D., is currently Professor of Pediatric Cardiology at Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Beekman's subspecialty interests involve cardiac catheterization and interventional cardiology, and clinical quality improvement.
A native of California, Dr. Beekman graduated from Occidental College in Los Angeles, and earned his MD from Duke University in Durham, NC. Dr. Beekman completed his pediatric internship and residency at UCLA Medical Center, and his pediatric cardiology fellowship at the University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI. Dr. Beekman also obtained a Master's Degree in Statistical Analysis and Research Design from the University of Michigan. From 1985 to 1996, Dr. Beekman was a member of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. From 1996-2006 he was Director of Cardiology at Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati, and professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine.
Dr. Beekman's 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 has published more than 170 manuscripts in cardiology journals.
Dr. Beekman has been active in the cardiology community, locally and nationally. He is Chair of the Section on Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Beekman also is the Chair of the JCCHD National Quality Improvement Collaborative for pediatric cardiology. Dr. Beekman has been a member of the Executive Committee and the Training Committee of the AHA Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, and of the Congenital Heart Committee of the ACC. He is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Interventional Cardiology, a contributing editor of theHeart.org, an Internet cardiology journal, and an associate editor of Congenital Heart Disease.
Credentials
MD: Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 1976.
MS: Clinical Research Design and Statistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1986.
Residency: Pediatrics, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1976 to 1979.
Fellowship: Pediatric Cardiology, CS Mott Children's Hospital, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1979 to 1982.
Certification: Pediatrics, 1981; Pediatric Cardiology, 1983.
Awards and Honors
- America’s Top Cardiologists, 2006,2007
- America’s Top Doctors, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
- Best Doctors in America, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
- Phi Beta Kappa – Occidental College, 1971
Research
Cardiac catheterization; intervention for congenital heart disease
Publications, Most Recent
Beekman RH: Percutaneous cardiac valve replacement and repair. Congenital Heart Disease 1: 2-9, 2006.
Gudausky TM, Beekman RH: Current options and long-term results for interventional treatment of pulmonary valvar stenosis. Cardiol Young 16: 418-427, 2006.
Eghtesady P, Michelfelder E, Altaye M, Schenbeck J, Burman D, Ballard E, Hirsch R, Beekman RH: Revisiting animal models of aortic stenosis in the early gestation fetus. Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 83: 631-639, 2007.
Gudausky TM, Pearl J, Kim E, Divanovic A, Dent CL, Spicer RL, Beekman RH: Open-chest epicardial approach to transcatheter pulmonary artery stenting following heart transplantation in an infant. Congenital Heart Disease, 2: 64-69, 2007.
Beekman RH. Closing the VSD because you can: Evidence-averse care? J Pediatrics, 150: 69-70, 2007.
King SB, Aversano T, Ballard WL, Beekman RH, Cowley M, Ellis SG, Faxon DP, Hannon EL, Hirshfeld JW, Jacobs AK, Kellet MA, Kimmell SE, Landzberg JS, McKeever LS, Moscucci M, Pomerantz RM, Smith KM, Vetrovec G: ACCF/AHA/SCAI 2007 update of the clinical competence statement on cardiac interventional procedures. Circulation 116: 98-120, 2007. J Am Coll Cardiol 50: 82-108, 2007.
Tangren C, Cripe L, Beekman RH, Wilson K, Inge T: The combined effects of balloon valvuloplasty and surgical weight loss in treatment of aortic stenosis. J Pediatr Surg 42: 1443-1445, 2007.
Beekman RH: Most patients with a moderate ventricular septal defect will not require intervention. J Pediatrics, 151: 554-55, 2007.
Markenson D, Krug SE, Beekman RH and the AAP Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Section on Cardiology: Ventricular fibrillation and the use of automated external defibrillators on children. Pediatrics 120: 1159-1161, 2007.
158. Hirsch R, Dent C, Pfriem H, Allen J, Beekman RH, Ma Q, Dastrala S, Bennett M, Mitsnefes M, Devarajan P: NGAL is an early predictive biomarker of contrast-induced nephropathy in children. Pediatr Nephrol 22(12): 2089-2095, 2007.
Gruenstein DH, Beekman RH, Spicer RL: Ductal stent and cavo-atrial sac occlusion in an adult with profound cyanosis after palliated cyanotic congenital heart disease. residual superior vena caval-right atrial shunt in an adult with palliated complex congenital heart disease. J Invasive Cardiol 20: E41-43, 2008.
Mays WA, Border WL, Knecht SK, Gerdes YM, Pfriem H, Claytor RP, Knilans TK, Hirsch R, Mone SM, Beekman RH: Exercise capacity improves after transcatheter closure of the Fontan fenestration in children. Congenital Heart Disease 3: 254-261, 2008.
Gudausky TM, Hirsch R, Khoury PR, Beekman RH: Comparison of two transcatheter device strategies for occlusion of the patent ductus arteriosus. Catheter Cardiovasc Interven 72: 675-680, 2008.
Bennett MR, Ravipati N, Ross G, Nguyen MT, Hirsch R, Beekman RH, Rovner L, Devarajan P. Using proteomics to identify preprocedural risk factors for contrast induced nephropathy. Proteomics Clin Appl 2(7-8): 1058-1064, 2008.
Jenkins KJ, Beekman RH, Bergersen LJ, Everett AD, Forbes TJ, Franklin RCG, Klitzner TS, Krogman ON, Martin GR, Webb CL: Databases for assessing the outcomes of the treatment of patients with congenital and paediatric cardiac disease: The perspective of cardiology. Cardiology in the Young, 18:116-123, 2008.
164. Cooper DS, Jacobs JP, Chai PJ, Jaggers J, Barach P, Beekman RH, Krogman O, Manning P: Pulmonary complications associated with the treatment of patients with congenital heart disease: Consensus definitions from the Multi-Societal Database Committee for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease. Cardiology in the Young, 18:215-221, 2008.
Presentations, Most Recent
Anderson JB, Beekman RH, Border W, Uzark K, Marino BS: Predictors of poor interstage growth in infants with a single ventricle. Presented at American Academy of Pediatrics, Boston, October 10, 2008. (Winner of 2008 Young Investigator Award).
Anderson JB, Border W, Lannon C, Uzark K, Khoury P, Beekman RH: Poor interstage weight gain in common and adversely affects short-term outcome after the bidirectional Glenn shunt. Presented at American College of Cardiology, Chicago, 3/30/2008.
National Quality Initiative in Pediatric Cardiology American Board of Pediatrics Subspecialty Consortium, Durham, NC, 7/30/07.
Pediatric Cardiology Training Guidelines – An Update, Symposium on Guidelines in Congenital Heart Disease, American College of Cardiology, Atlanta, 3/13/06.
Professional Organization Memberships
Special Interests
Cardiac catheterization; intervention for congenital heart disease; quality improvement
Editing
- (Catheterization & Intervention): Congenital Heart Disease, Associate Editor
- theHeart.org (Internet Journal), Contributing Editor
- Journal of Interventional Cardiology, Editorial Board
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