Peter Eckman, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Heart Failure, Transplantation, and Mechanical Circulatory Support

Born in Duluth, Minnesota, Dr. Peter Eckman graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College with a B.A. in physics. At the University of Minnesota, he received his M.D. and completed his residency and general-cardiology fellowship. Following an advanced heart-failure and cardiac transplantation fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Eckman joined the University of Minnesota faculty in 2009.

Dr. Eckman is proud to be a part of the faculty at the University of Minnesota, which has been a national and international leader in heart-failure research and clinical care for decades. He is particularly interested in the role of mechanical circulatory support (such as ventricular-assist devices, or VADs) for severe heart failure, and in how heart failure may benefit from cell therapy.

Dr. Eckman’s clinical practice serves patients across the heart-failure spectrum:

• Prevention and monitoring for those at high risk of developing heart failure
• Diagnosis / treatment of the newly diagnosed
• Management of mild-to-moderate heart failure
• Advanced options for patients with severe heart failure, including mechanical circulatory support, cell therapy, and heart transplant.

Honors and Awards

American College of Physicians, Minnesota Chapter

• Best Overall Research Poster (resident award, 2003) Minnesota Medical Foundation
• Distinguished Teaching Award (awarded by third- and fourth-year medical students, 2004)

University of Minnesota

• Leslie W. Miller Award (Most Outstanding Cardiology Fellow)
• Chief fellow (2007-2008)
• Chief resident (2004-2005)
• Best Diagnostician (residency class)

Professional Organizations

• American College of Cardiology
• Heart Failure Society of America
• International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Journals (Editing and Review)

• Clinical Transplantation, reviewer
  
• Current Cardiology Reviews, Editorial Board and reviewer
  
• International Journal of Cardiology, reviewer
  
• Journal of Cardiac Failure, reviewer

Selected Publications

Jameel MN, Eckman P, From A, Verfaillie CM, Zhang J. Postnatal Stem Cells for Myocardial Repair. In: Verfaillie CM and Low WC, eds. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine. Hackensack, New Jersey:World Scientific Publishing Company;2008:221-265

Eckman PM, Westensee JC, Missov E, Liao KK, Truskinovsky AM, Panetta C. Renal-cell carcinoma in the left-ventricular outflow tract. Int J Cardiol 2008:e1-e3

Feygin J, Mansoor A, Eckman P, Swingen C, Zhang J. Functional and bioenergetic modulations in the infarct border zone following autologous mesenchymal stem-cell transplantation. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2007;293:H1772-H1780