Robert M. Bedard, MD

Dr. Bedard is a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.  Dr. Bedard joined with his pediatric partners in 1996 to form Connecticut Asthma and Allergy Center.  Just prior to that, he was in the solo practice of asthma and allergy at 85 Seymour Street, Hartford from 1984.  Dr. Bedard is on the senior staff at Hartford Hospital and the courtesy or consulting staffs at the University of Connecticut Health Center, St. Francis Hospital, Manchester Memorial Hospital, and Windham Memorial Hospital.  At Hartford Hospital he serves on the Medical Advisory Board, representing the independent subspecialists of that community.
 
Dr. Bedard attended Brown University where he graduated in 1970 with a bachelor’s degree in biology.  His medical school training followed at the University of Cincinnati, where he was awarded an Upjohn Citation for Clinical Excellence and elected to Alpha Omega Alpha, a medical school Honor Society.
 
His Internal Medicine training was at Medical Center Hospital in Burlington, Vermont between 1974 and 1977.
 
Following that, he helped start a primary care clinic in a small Wisconsin town just outside of Madison from 1977 to 1982.  He then took allergy and asthma subspecialty training at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics in Madison, finishing in June 1984 when he moved back to New England. 

He is a member of the American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians, the Connecticut State Medical Society, the Hartford County Medical Society, and is current trustee and past president of the Hartford Medical Society.  He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Asthma, Allergy, and Immunology and is board certified in internal medicine and in asthma, allergy and immunology.

His outside interests include the Red Sox and American history, in particular the Civil War.  He is a Union reenactor and has given many presentations on Civil War medicine.

Dr. Bedard’s clinical interest and expertise centers on chronic asthma, nasal/sinus disease, drug and skin allergies.  He has been recognized by the National Registry of Who’s Who, the Best Doctors in America, and Connecticut Magazine’s “Best Doctors.”