Dr. Robert Eckart graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in physiology before attending medical school in Philadelphia.  He then embarked on career in the United States Army, with training in Honolulu and San Antonio.  From 2004 to 2006, he trained in cardiac electrophysiology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and returned to Texas as an Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service, San Antonio Military Medical Center.  He has been board certified by the ABIM in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology and serves as a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the Heart Rhythm Society.  Dr. Eckart’s clinical interests include complex ablation and device management including extraction and venoplasty.  He has published over 50 articles in the peer-reviewed literature and has co-authored 5 textbook chapters on resource utilization in the evaluation of syncope and atrial fibrillation, and epidemiology of cardiovascular and arrhythmic disease.  Although Dr. Eckart served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army with overseas duty in Germany, Iraq and Afghanistan, he has been coming to Sarasota for nearly 40 years, spending time with grandparents in Venice as a child, and more recently, his in-laws in Tampa.