From 1923 to 1924, he served as the Arthur Tracy Cabot Fellow in Surgical Research at Harvard University under the guidance of Dr. Harvey Cushing.

At the same time, he was also an associate surgeon at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital where he worked with Dr. Elliott Cutler.

The Beck II operation came about in the late 1940s, which created a vein graft between the aorta and coronary sinus.

[5] The medical signs classically associated with acute cardiac tamponade are collectively called Beck's triad.

[5] His daughter, Mary Ellen Wohl, became chief of the respiratory diseases division at Children's Hospital Boston, amongst other accomplishments.