Clinical Interests

• Primary care and consultation in neonatal, pediatric and adolescent medicine. Comprehensive care for complex or multi system disease through multi specialty coordinated care. Special interest in genetic disease.

Education

• Tufts New England Medical Center
  Boston, MA Floating Hospital Boston
  Internship and Residency 1973-76

• University of Vermont College of Medicine
  MD awarded 1973

• University of Massachusetts
  BS 1969

Affiliations

• Maine Coast Memorial Hospital
  Ellsworth, ME
• Eastern Maine Medical Center
  Bangor, ME
• Tufts University
  Boston, MA
• Center for Human Genetics
  Bar Harbor, ME

Comments

• Dr. Beekman and his wife Ellen live in Ellsworth with their son and daughter. The Beekmans, including Winifred, their black lab, enjoy biking, hiking and skiing during their leisure time. Robert A. Beekman, MD

Favorite Quote:

• “Physicians prescribe medications of which they know little, for disease of which they know less, in humans of which they know nothing,” –Voltaire