Overview

Dr. Robert Campbell is a pediatric cardiologist at Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta Cardiology and a Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology. Dr. Campbell graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1974, attended Emory University School of Medicine 1974-1978, and served his pediatric residency at Emory University 1978-1981. Following pediatric cardiology fellowship at the University of Michigan 1981-1984, he joined the pediatric cardiology faculty at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, serving as pediatric cardiac electrophysiologist until 1987. At this point he returned to Atlanta, GA, still called home.

From 1997 May 2015, Dr. Campbell served as the Director of the Cardiology practice, Chief of the Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta Cardiology cardiac service line, and Division Director for cardiology in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine. In May 2015 he resigned these administrative titles and has returned to a focus of clinical care, teaching, and research. Areas of clinical focus include hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, arrhythmia and electrophysiology, and sudden cardiac arrest in children and young adults.

Dr. Campbell is a Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society, Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, Fellow of the American Heart Association, and Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He currently serves on the Georgia Chapter of the ACC Board and is active within the Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He has been a member of the Pediatric and Congenital Electrophysiology Society (PACES) since 1998. He has been a Board member of the Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndrome (SADS) Foundation since 2006.

In 2004, he became the Medical Director for Project S.A.V.E (Sudden Cardiac Arrest, Awareness, Vision, and Education) at Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta. Project S.A.V.E. is a local Atlanta and statewide Georgia initiative to prevent pediatric sudden cardiac death. Project S.A.V.E. provides a no cost consultation to individual schools and school districts for implementation of emergency action plans throughout the state. Project S.A.V.E. also works closely with parents and families and healthcare providers to increase awareness about warning signs and symptoms in patients and families at risk for sudden cardiac arrest. Project S.A.V.E. is a subsidiary of the national Project ADAM sudden cardiac arrest initiative.

Academic Appointment

• Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
• Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Morehouse School of Medicine
• Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Mercer University School of Medicine
• Clinical Assistant Professor, Mercer University School of Medicine

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Research