Dr. Beckman received his medical degree from UAMS in 1970. He interned at St. Vincent Infirmary in 1971 and completed a General Surgery Residency at UAMS in 1975. He completed a plastic surgery residency at the University of Tennessee in 1977 and served on the faculty at the Arkansas Veterans Administration in Little Rock, where he was the chief of hand surgery from 1979 to 1982 and served as a clinical instructor in plastic surgery. He spent some time in private practice and is the CEO and Founder of Therapon Skin Health.