Cheri Geckler

Areas of Expertise

Medical Ethics; Autistic Spectrum Disorders; Neuropsychology; Behavioral Neurology

Email: cgeckler@brandeis.edu

Current Project

Cheri will be working on two projects this year.  The first will focus on photography as a medium for development of self awareness and self efficacy within expanding experiential contexts.  The other project Cheri will work on centers around HIV/AIDS affected women in development countries: a psychosocial intervention.

Biography

Cheri Geckler is a neuropsychologist who currently works as a clinician in the Department of Pediatrics at New England Medical Center.  Cheri is looking at trends in funding for research and education in women’s health.  An examination of trends in research funding for women’s health by the federal government and pharmaceutical companies will elucidate the depth of political expressions of commitment to improved health care for women.

Cheri’s interest in leadership development in adolescent girls is being realized by her involvement with the Waltham Committee at the WSRC. The goal is to develop a program to mentor adolescent girls on issues of education after high school, career choice and feminism.

She held post-doctoral fellowships at Boston Children’s Hospital, McLean Hospital and New England Medical Center.  Cheri was a staff neuropsychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Instructor in Neurology at Harvard Medical School prior to joining the clinical staff at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.  Before coming to Brandeis in 1996, Cheri was a Visiting Scholar at Wellesley College’s Centers for Women.  Currently, Cheri is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University Medical School.

Education

Ph.D., The Ohio State University

M.A., The Ohio State University

B.A., Allegheny College

Representative Publications

Born, P. and C. Geckler.  “HMO Quality and Financial Performance: Is There a Connection?”  Journal of Health Care Finance 24.1 (1998): 65-77.

Geckler, Cheri. Medical Practice Perspectives and Decision Making in Medical Residents, A Working Paper Series. Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, 1997.