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Rachel Beekman, MD

Assistant Professor
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Director, Neurocritical Care Fellowship Program, Neurology

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Assistant Professor

Director, Neurocritical Care Fellowship Program, Neurology

Biography

Rachel Beekman began her medical training in her home state of New York at Stony Brook University School of Medicine but has since relocated to New Haven, where she completed her neurology residency and neurocritical care fellowship at Yale New Haven Hospital. Rachel is the first Yale alumni to continue as faculty in the department of neurocritical care. Rachel has a passion for treating survivors of cardiac arrest and is building a multi-disciplinary cardiac arrest program. In her spare time Rachel loves being mom to her two young boys and spending family time at all the beautiful Connecticut parks.

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Education & Training

MD
Stony Brook School of Medicine (2014)

Board Certifications

  • Neurocritical Care

    Certification Organization
    AB of Psychiatry & Neurology
    Original Certification Date
    2021
  • Neurology

    Certification Organization
    AB of Psychiatry & Neurology
    Original Certification Date
    2018

Research

Overview

1. I am the site PI for the Influence of Cooling Duration on Efficacy in Cardiac Arrest Patients (ICECAP) trial, aimed at identifying the optimal duration of cooling to 33C in cardiac arrest patients.

2. I am the site PI for the Multimodal Outcome CHAracterization after cardiac arrest (MOCHA) study, a multi-site prospective observational trial aimed at improving multimodal prognostication in cardiac arrest survivors.

3. I am the PI on an investigator-initiated proposal to evaluate cerebral pressure autoregulation and individualized blood pressure goals after cardiac arrest, using near infrared spectroscopy.

4. I am the PI on an industry sponsored pilot grant to evaluate synaptic density in survivors of cardiac arrest, using SV2A PET.

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Brain Death; Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest; Post-Cardiac Arrest Syndrome

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Rachel Beekman's published research.

Publications

2024

Clinical Trials

Current Trials