L. Lee Eckhardt, MD

Position title: Co-Director of T32 Program, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine

Email: lle@medicine.wisc.edu

Link to Department of Medicine

Link to Eckhardt Lab

 

Research

Dr. Lee Eckhardt is a clinical cardiac electrophysiologist who joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine as an Assistant Professor in 2007. She obtained her Medical Degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC and stayed to complete her training in Internal Medicine at the Georgetown University Medical Center. She trained at the University of Wisconsin for her Cardiovascular Medicine fellowship. She received her sub-specialty training in Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Eckhardt is Board Certified in Internal Medicine (ABIM), Cardiovascular Diseases (ABIM), and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology.

Dr. Eckhardt practices clinical cardiac electrophysiology and is co-director of the Inherited Arrhythmias Clinic. Her research interests are related to the cellular mechanisms of inherited arrhythmia syndromes and cellular electrophysiology. She is a member of the Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC) and her research efforts are in conjunction with the Cellular and Molecular Arrhythmia Research Program.