July 7, 2022
Dr. James Geyer joined CCHS as professor in the Department of Family, Internal, and Rural Medicine. He will also serve as medical director of the College’s Institute for Rural Health Research. Geyer is board certified in neurology and sleep medicine. He has been in private practice for more than 20 years and has served as adjunct faculty with CCHS. Prior to joining the College, Geyer practiced at Alabama Neurology and Sleep Medicine in Tuscaloosa, where he directed the Sleep Program. Geyer earned undergraduate degrees in biomedical and electrical engineering at Duke University in North Carolina and did postgraduate work in biomedical engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He received his medical degree at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham (now the UAB Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine). He completed his residency training in neurology at UAB, where he was chief resident, and he completed a fellowship in sleep medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Geyer has authored more than 100 journal articles and book chapters and has edited several textbooks, including Clinical Sleep Disorders.
