It is uncommon for a man to be highly regarded in more than one field of endeavor.
By any standard, therefore,
Prof. Dr.(med.) Peter S. Geissler, A.B., B.S., M.S., M.Phil., Ph.D.(Yale)
M.A., M.Eng., M.S., Ph.D., M.S., M.D., Ph.D., M.Phil.(Cantab)
is an uncommon man.
Dr. Geissler is well known as professional engineer, surveyor and medical physicist.
Dr. Geissler has a broad background in civil and mechanical engineering, and the physical and biomedical sciences. He earned two bachelors degrees, a B.S. in civil engineering from Stanford University, and an A.B. in physics from University of California, Berkeley. Thereafter, he was awarded a United States Public Health Service Training Grant to attend Yale University where he received M.S., M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in physiology, all by the age of 24.
Having received his Ph.D. from Yale in the shadow (both literally and figuratively) of the famous Lars Onsager, Peter Geissler “messed around” for a few years trying to solve the 3-Dimensional Ising Model Problem. Needless to say, those efforts were fruitless, but in the process, the young Dr. Geissler stumbled across a solution to another important theoretical problem, the Tethered Polymer Problem, that has broad application to Graph Theory [c.f. Geissler, P., “Configurational Entropy of Tethered Polymers and the Swelling Properties of Connective Tissue” in Solution Properties of Polysaccarides, 1981, American Chemical Society].
Thus, at the age of 24, Dr. Geissler started a twenty-year career (1974 – 1994) as lecturer at the University of California (Davis, Berkeley and Irvine) biomedical engineer and research scientist in the Division of Biology & Medicine at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. During this period, Dr. Geissler earned an M.A. degree in biophysics from the University of California, Berkeley, the M.Eng. degree in civil engineering from the University of California, Davis, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering from the University of California, Irvine.
Dr. Geissler was appointed Science Advisor to the California Energy Commission for the State of California.
Dr. Geissler was appointed Special National Institutes of Health Research Fellow in Physiological Optics at the School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley and Special National Institutes of Health Research Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, Davis.
Dr. Geissler was awarded an Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship at the Institute für Physiologie, Die Freien Universität, Berlin.
During the period 1974 to 1978, Dr. Geissler was a guest scientist in the Division of Biology and Medicine at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Dr. Geissler undertook theoretical research on radiobioassays and nonequilibrium thermodynamics of ion transport across biological membranes.
During the period 1978 to 1989, Dr. Geissler was employed at Wm Brobeck Company in Berkeley. Of course, Wm Brobeck is well known as the principal medical physicist and biomedical engineer who supervised the construction of the 109-inch cyclotron at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. For several years, Dr. Geissler worked for the Wm Brobeck Company as a consultant regarding imaging and nuclear medicine, including radiation shielding and safety regulations.
From 1989 to 1994, Dr. Geissler was a lecturer in civil and environmental engineering at University of California, Irvine.
In 1994, Dr. Geissler studied clinical human anatomy at Oxford University as an academic visitor through Oxford’s ISIS Exchange Programme.
In 1994-95, Dr. Geissler studied medicine at American University of the Caribbean whilst serving on the medical microbiology faculty and lecturing on clinical immunology and earned an M.S. degree in basic medical sciences.
In 1995, Dr. Geissler completed his Doctor of Medicine degree at Grace University in St Kitts-Nevis, a medical qualification recognized by the General Medical Council (London) in the United Kingdom.
In 1996, Dr. Geissler spent two months in residence at the London School of Tropical Medicine. However, prior to completing the requirements for the Diploma in Tropical Medicine, Dr. Geissler accepted an appointment as Director of the Cambridge Overseas Medical Training Programme in Cambridge.
In 1996-97, Dr. Geissler undertook postgraduate research within the Department of Anatomy at University of Cambridge and wrote a thesis on the role of bacterial endotoxin, a virulence factor expressed by most gram-negative bacteria known to have a stimulatory effect on host inflammatory mediators, and explained the biochemical mechanism of its destabilizing effect on the blood-clotting cascade that causes disseminated intravascular coagulation in severe cases of sepsis.
In 1997, Dr. Geissler was awarded the M.Phil.(Cantab) degree in biological sciences from the University of Cambridge.
When asked what he considers his most significant intellectual contribution, Dr. Geissler responds without hesitation: “serving as Professor Howard Mel’s assistant” for twenty-odd years in Berkeley on the development of the Theory of Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes [c.f. Mel, H. and Geissler, P., “Global Thermodynamic Potential Function for Nonequilibrium, Open Chemical Reaction Systems” 1986 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Technical Report No. LBL-22323].
When asked about what he considers his greatest failure, Dr. Geissler responds, similarly, without hesitation: “trying to start a medical school in war-torn Uganda.” After many years of effort, hundreds of thousands of dollars in fundraising and significant educational support from University of Cambridge faculty, only a handful of African physicians were ultimately trained in tropical medicine before the school finally closed its doors. En route, however, there were also triumphs, such as having been appointed Chancellor of Saint Christopher’s College of Medicine in Senegal, serving as Director of the Cambridge Overseas Medical Training Programme in Africa, serving as Managing Director of Kigezi International School of Medicine in Uganda, and presiding over graduation ceremonies at the United Nations in New York.
This time in Africa, however difficult, proved to be formative in developing Dr. Geissler’s appreciation of the environmental and public health aspects of clinical medicine, especially community mental health and the treatment of addiction disorders. Thereafter, he undertook specialty postdoctoral training in the treatment of addiction disorders and in-depth psychoanalysis under the auspices of the British Psychoanalytic Institute. In order to develop innovative community mental health programs, Dr. Geissler subsequently held the following health-related professional licenses: Marriage and Family Therapist in the District of Columbia; Registered Addiction Counselor in the District of Columbia; Registered Naturopath in the District of Columbia; Registered Health Physics Consultant in the District of Columbia; Registered Counselor in the State of Washington; Registered Radiation Physicist in the District of Columbia; Registered Hypnotherapist in the State of Washington; Marriage and Family Therapist Associate in the State of Washington; Certified Chemical Dependency Professional in the State of Washington; Marital and Family Therapist in the State of Tennessee; Licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor in the State of Tennessee; Certified Clinical Therapist in the State of Oregon; Mental Health Counselor in the State of Florida; Certified Drug, Alcohol & Addictions Counselor in the State of California; Student Research Psychoanalyst in the State of California; and Registered Addiction Counselor in the State of California. Finally, Dr. Geissler was appointed Professor of Psychiatry at University of the Cumberlands to head a bold initiative to develop a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology degree program designed to be the first of its kind, worldwide, to educate medical psychologists capable of being granted prescription authority. Recently, Dr. Geissler was appointed Secretary of the British Psychoanalytic Institute.
Dr. Geissler has been appointed a court-approved general civil mediator in the following jurisdictions: United States District Court for the District of Idaho; United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania; Superior Court of California, County of Fresno; Superior Court of California, County of Yolo; Superior Court of California, County of Solano; Superior Court of California, County of Butte; Superior Court of California, County of Nevada; Superior Court of California, County of Amador; Superior Court of California, County of Contra Costa, Superior Court of California, County of Tuolumne; Supreme Court of Georgia; Supreme Court of Tennessee; and the Seventh Judicial Administrative District, State of Georgia, Superior, Probate and Magistrate Courts. Most significantly, Dr. Geissler has recently been added to the mediation panel for the Sixth Appellate District Court of Appeal, State of California.
Dr. Geissler holds two dozen licenses in engineering, surveying and radiation physics in several jurisdictions, including USA, Ireland, Italy & Malta. Dr. Geissler is a Fellow of the Engineers of Ireland and Fellow of the European Federation of National Engineering Associations (FEANI).
Dr. Geissler has devoted the second half of his career to the practice of medical physics, commencing 2009 in private practice as a Registered Radiation Physicist and Registered Health Physics Consultant in Washington DC.
Dr. Geissler is qualified as a Medical Physicist pursuant to 10 CFR § 35.51.
Recently, Dr. Geissler has been approved as Director of a U. S. Federal Government CLIA High Complexity Radiobioassay Reference Laboratory (Colorado, CLIA ID No. 06D2192717 & Idaho, CLIA ID No. 13D2198688).
I, Dr. Peter Scott Geissler, MD, MPhil (Cantab), PE, hold the following professional qualifications, licenses and titles.
1. I have completed studies in medical physics, as follows:
| 1974 | PhD | Physiology Department of Physiology Yale University |
| 1973 | MPhil | Physiology Department of Physiology Yale University |
| 1972 | MS | Physiology Department of Physiology Yale University |
| 1978 | MA | Biophysics Department of Biophysics and Medical Physics University of California, Berkeley |
| 1971 | AB | Physics Department of Physics University of California, Berkeley |
2. I have been granted licenses, registrations, certifications, and authorized titles in the field of medical physics as follows:
3. I have completed studies in heathcare as follows:
| 1997 | MPhil (Cantab) | Biological Sciences Department of Anatomy University of Cambridge |
| 1995 | MD | Grace University School of Medicine Saint Kitts-Nevis |
| 1995 | MS | American University of the Caribbean School of Graduate Studies Montserrat, British West Indies |
4. I have been granted licenses, registrations, certifications, and authorized titles in the field of healthcare as follows:
5. I have completed studies in engineering as follows:
| 1993 | PhD | Civil Engineering Department of Civil Engineering University of California, Irvine |
| 1991 | MS (Eng) | Civil Engineering Department of Civil Engineering University of California, Irvine |
| 1988 | MEng (Civil) | Civil Engineering Department of Civil Engineering University of California, Davis |
| 1986 | BSc (Eng) | Civil Engineering Department of Civil Engineering Stanford University |
6. I have been granted licenses, registrations, certifications, and authorized titles in the field of engineering as follows:
7. I have completed studies in land surveying as follows:
| 2018 | BAS | Applied Science Department of Land Surveying/Geomatics Great Basin College |
8. I have been granted licenses, registrations, certifications, and authorized titles in the field of land surveying as follows:
9. I have been granted a license in the field of architecture as follows:
10. I have been approved as a court-appointed civil mediator in the following jurisdictions:
Dr. Peter Scott Geissler is an intellectual property attorney (patents, trademarks & designs) in Malta with authority to represent clients before the Commerce Department, Intellectual Property Office Malta.
Dr. Geissler’s primary qualification as an intellectual property attorney in Malta has been recognized by the Irish Patents Office pursuant to The European Communities (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) Regulations 2007.
Dr. Peter Scott Geissler has been granted authority by Her Majesty’s Government in Gibraltar under section 13(1) of the Electronic Commerce Act 2001 and pursuant to Electronic Commerce Subsidiary Legislation made under s. 25, Approval of Providers of Accreditation Certificates Regulations 2013/066 Rule 2, Schedule 1, to certify the authenticity of electronic signatures and to issue accreditation certificates for electronic signatures. According to Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on Electronic Identification and Trust Services for Electronic Transactions in the Internal Market, Brussels 4.6.2012 COM (2012) 238 final 2012/0146 (COD), Dr. Geissler’s authority extends throughout the European Union. Date of recognition is 9 June 2014.
Dr. Peter Scott Geissler has been appointed Commissioner for Oaths by the Supreme Court of Gibraltar pursuant to the Commissioners for Oaths & Public Notaries Act 1953 and pursuant to pursuant to regulations adopted by Her Majesty’s governments in Gibraltar pursuant to Commissioners For Oaths Act 1889; commencement date 12 May 2015; Registration No. 120/17.
I verily believe and hereby confirm that the above statements are true.
