Aaron Hartman MD

Dr. Hartman graduated Summa Cum Laude in Biology from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1995, earned his MD from Medical College of Virginia in 2000, and then completed his residency in Family Medicine at the Hanover Family Practice residency program at the Medical College of Virginia in 2003. That same year he earned his first board certification in Family Medicine through the American Board of Family Medicine. In 2006 he earned the honorary degree of Fellow from the American Academy of Family Physicians and became a Diplomat of the American Board of Family Medicine.

From 2003 to 2007 Dr. Hartman served in the United States Air Force while earning the rank of  Major and holding multiple command positions including Clinic Director of Kleber Clinic and medical staff member at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. He was also Medical Director of the MacDill Air Force Base Brandon Community Clinic, and supervising physician of the MacDill AFB cardiopulmonary clinic. From 2005 to 2007 Dr. Hartman obtained additional dermatological training from both USF and the University of Miami and currently manages 95% of his dermatology patients.

Throughout this time Dr. Hartman has remained active in the local scientific community. In 2010 he started Virginia Research Center, a clinical research center which offers the most up to treatment options to his patients through FDA approved medical trials. In May 2011 he was appointed to the position of Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Medicine which he still currently holds.

Dr. Hartman’s additional medical interests include: travel medicine, dermatology, and procedural medicine. He is fluent in Spanish and enjoys traveling overseas. He has worked at hospitals in Honduras, Germany and Ecuador and clinics in Belize and Guatemala. Dr. Hartman has served on the Board of Directors for Seeds of Hope Brazil, a non-profit organization dedicated to the orphans and street children of São Paulo, Brazil. His academic interests include clinical research and theology. To date he has participated in over 30 clinical trials, published in the Lancet as well as publish his seminary thesis.

Dr. Hartman is married to Rebekah Hartman who is an Occupational Therapist and has worked with pediatric patients with special needs for several years. Rebekah and Aaron were foster parents for one of these children whom they adopted in 2007. They adopted their second daughter in 2010 and their son 2016.