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’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.


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