Eric Heckman, MD
Assistant Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Medicine
Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine

MD, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
BA, Boston University



Dr. Heckman is an attending physician and director of sleep medicine in the division of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine at Boston Medical Center and is an Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr Heckman’s clinical and research interests include sleep disordered breathing with a special focus on complex sleep apnea and chronic respiratory failure. He is interested in customizing sleep apnea therapy for the individual patient including utilizing newer implantable devices. He desires to incorporate new methods of sleep analysis into clinical practice. He has expertise in medical education and was a sleep fellowship program director for 5 years prior to joining BMC.

Physician (Previously Held)
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Internal Medicine
Pulmonary Disease

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  1. Quinn T, Thomas RJ, Heckman EJ. Frontiers in Sleep. Enchanced expiratory rebreathing space for high loop gain sleep apnea treatment. 2023. View Publication
  2. Libman H, Zhou ES, Heckman E, Smetana GW. How Would You Manage This Patient With Chronic Insomnia? : Grand Rounds Discussion From Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Ann Intern Med. 2022 Dec; 175(12):1746-1753. PMID: 36508740
     
  3. Edwards BA, Younes M, Heckman E, Pogach M, Thomas RT. Principles and practice of sleep medicine. Deep phenotyping of sleep apnea. Elsevier. 2022; 2.
  4. Thomas RJ, Kim H, Maillard P, DeCarli CS, Heckman EJ, Karjadi C, Ang TFA, Au R. Digital sleep measures and white matter health in the Framingham Heart Study. Explor Med. 2021; 2(3):253-267.View Related Profiles. PMID: 34927164; PMCID: PMC8682916; DOI: 10.37349/emed.2021.00045;
     
  5. Schmickl CN, Heckman E, Owens RL, Thomas RJ. The Respiratory Signature: A Novel Concept to Leverage Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Therapy as an Early Warning System for Exacerbations of Common Diseases such as Heart Failure. J Clin Sleep Med. 2019 06 15; 15(6):923-927. PMID: 31138387; PMCID: PMC6557656; DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.7852;
     
  6. Heckman EJ, Thomas RJ. Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology. Complex Sleep Apnea. Elsevier. 2017.
  7. Heckman EJ, O'Connor GT. Pulmonary function tests for diagnosing lung disease. JAMA. 2015 Jun 9; 313(22):2278-9.View Related Profiles. PMID: 26057290; PMCID: PMC5539768; DOI: 10.1001/jama.2015.4466;
     

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2008 UMDNJ – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Piscataway: Academic Excellence Award in Internal Medicine
2007 University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, RWJMS: Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
2004-2008 University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, RWJMS: Robert Wood Johnson Dean’s Scholarship
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Sleep Metabolomics Cardiovascular Disease Carbon Monoxide
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