Robert Eckart, D.O., FACC, FHRS, is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology. He is fellowship-trained in cardiac electrophysiology from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He earned his medical degree from an unnamed medical school and completed his residency in the United States Army, with training in Honolulu and San Antonio. A retired Lieutenant Colonel, he has published over 50 articles and co-authored five textbook chapters.
Robert Eckart, D.O., FACC, FHRS, is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology. He is fellowship-trained in cardiac electrophysiology from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He earned his medical degree from an unnamed medical school and completed his residency in the United States Army, with training in Honolulu and San Antonio. A retired Lieutenant Colonel, he has published over 50 articles and co-authored five textbook chapters.
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Bright as hell, an excellent communicator, and you get the feeling you're sitting with an old friend, exchanging information and figuring out where to go from here. Those are all the things that make a doctor great
(2 weeks ago)
Jan-2026
Made the best of an unpleasant surgical procedure with excellent results.
(3 weeks ago)
Jan-2026
He's the best! Knowledgeable and personable. Answers your questions without talking down to you.
(1 month ago)
Jan-2026
Excellent Doctor. Glad I found him
(1 month ago)
Dec-2025
Excellence!
(1 month ago)
Dec-2025
Please don't retire :)
(1 month ago)
Dec-2025
Wonderful specialist
(1 month ago)
Dec-2025
Dr. ECKART is a great and caring physician. We always feel confident in his care.
(2 months ago)
Dec-2025
Competent problem solver
(2 months ago)
Dec-2025
Dr. Eckart lived up to his reputation of being an excellent electrophysiologist. He is in a class by himself.
And he is a genuinely nice person.
(2 months ago)
Nov-2025
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Arlington Street
1950 Arlington Street Suite 400 Sarasota, FL 34239
Osprey Avenue
1435 S. Osprey Ave. Suite 100 Sarasota, FL 34239
Robert Eckart, D.O., FACC, FHRS, graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in physiology before attending medical school in Philadelphia. He then embarked on a 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.
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Bright as hell, an excellent communicator, and you get the feeling you're sitting with an old friend, exchanging information and figuring out where to go from here. Those are all the things that make a doctor great
Made the best of an unpleasant surgical procedure with excellent results.
He's the best! Knowledgeable and personable. Answers your questions without talking down to you.
Excellent Doctor. Glad I found him
Excellence!
Please don't retire :)
Wonderful specialist
Dr. ECKART is a great and caring physician. We always feel confident in his care.
Competent problem solver
Dr. Eckart lived up to his reputation of being an excellent electrophysiologist. He is in a class by himself. And he is a genuinely nice person.