At this year’s GA ACC Annual Meeting, the Lifetime Achievement Award will be delivered to Dr. Robert Campbell, who will be recognized for contributions to medicine and the ACC.
During his professional career, Dr. Robert Campbell was a pediatric cardiologist at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Sibley Heart Center and a Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology. In 1990 was a founding member of the Emory-Egleston Children’s Heart Center (now known as Sibley Heart Center Cardiology (SHCC)).
From 1997 – May 2015, served as the Director of SHCC, Chief of the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Sibley Heart Center cardiac service line, and Division Director for cardiology in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine.
Dr. Campbell was a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society, Fellow of the American Heart Association, and Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He served on the Georgia Chapter of the ACC Board (2014 – 2016) and was active within the Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics until his retirement. He was a member of the Pediatric and Congenital Electrophysiology Society (PACES). He served as a Board member of the Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndrome (SADS) Foundation since 2006.
In 2004, Dr. Campbell established the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Project S.A.V.E. (Sudden Cardiac Arrest, Awareness, Vision for prevention, and Education) and served as Medical Director from 2004 – 2021. Project S.A.V.E. is a local Atlanta and statewide Georgia initiative to prevent pediatric sudden cardiac death. Project S.A.V.E. became the first Project ADAM (Automated Defibrillators in Adam’s Memory) affiliate in 2006. Project ADAM has become an international collaborative to make schools and communities safer as a result of the development of cardiac emergency action plans. Dr. Campbell served as Co-medical Director of Project ADAM 2017 – 2021.
Dr. Campbell’s interests and expertise were arrhythmia diagnosis and management, cardiomyopathy diagnosis and management, prevention of sudden cardiac arrest, and prevention of sudden cardiac death.
Dr. Campbell believed that the foundation of a successful cardiac practice was communication and teamwork and the development of program leaders.
Dr. Campbell retired from clinical practice June 2021.