Gary Geissler has been the Clinical Director of Rehabilitationfor Harvard's sports medicine team since 1991. His primary sportsassignments are football, men's and women's crosscountry, men's and women's track and field and women's waterpolo.
Geissler provides clinical consultations and treatments forstudent athletes with complicated or unresolved orthopedicdysfunction to include implementing and directing appropriatetreatment plans. He also serves as the continuing-educationcoordinator for the sports medicine group, outlining and schedulinglectures, workshops, in-services and journal club.
Geissler also works with all Harvard students as a Senior CommonRoom member in Lowell House.
Geissler has a lengthy list of affiliations with world-classathletes, both at Harvard and on the national and internationalcircuits. He has been the head athletic trainer and sports physicaltherapist for the U.S. national track and field team at the WorldChampionships and was a member of the athletic training andphysical therapy staff for the U.S. team at the 1996 Olympic Gamesin Atlanta. He was a volunteer athletic trainer during the 1994FIFA World Cup and has worked as an athletic trainer at a number ofhigh-level ice hockey, basketball and wrestling events as well.
Geissler is a 1981 graduate of Boston University where he alsoobtained a master's degree in physical therapy in 1986. Hereceived his doctorate in physical therapy from The MassachusettsGeneral Hospital Institute of Health Professions in Boston in2009.
Geissler is an Assistant Professor at the MGH IHP, where heteaches sports physical therapy and has served as a clinicallecturer and laboratory instructor for Boston University's SargentCollege of Rehabilitation Sciences.
