Eric J. Heckman, MD
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Biography
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.
Other Positions
- Physician (Previously Held), Pulmonary Disease, Internal Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Education
- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, MD
- Boston University, BA
Publications
- Published on 4/1/2025
Labarca G, Saleh D, Hiranrattana A, Heckman E. Novel Therapies for Sleep-disordered Breathing. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2025 Apr; 211(4):637-639. PMID: 39836399.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 9/2/2023
Quinn T, Thomas RJ, Heckman EJ. Frontiers in Sleep. Enchanced expiratory rebreathing space for high loop gain sleep apnea treatment. 2023.
Read at: Custom - Published on 12/13/2022
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.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/1/2022
Edwards BA, Younes M, Heckman E, Pogach M, Thomas RT. Principles and practice of sleep medicine. Deep phenotyping of sleep apnea. Elsevier. 2022; 2.
- Published on 6/30/2021
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. PMID: 34927164.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/15/2019
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.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/1/2017
Heckman EJ, Thomas RJ. Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology. Complex Sleep Apnea. Elsevier. 2017.
- Published on 6/9/2015
Heckman EJ, O'Connor GT. Pulmonary function tests for diagnosing lung disease. JAMA. 2015 Jun 9; 313(22):2278-9. PMID: 26057290.
Read at: PubMed