Dr. Rachel Geller|Associate Medical Examiner

Dr. Rachel L. Geller

 

Dr. Geller received her Doctor of Medicine from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in 2013.  Dr. Geller completed a Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Residency (AP/CP) at Emory University in 2017 and a Forensic Pathology Fellowship through Emory University at the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office in 2018.  Her Bachelor of Arts is from the University of Virginia.

 

Dr. Geller is certified by the American Board of Pathology in the disciplines of Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, and Forensic Pathology. She has been an Associate Medical Examiner at the DeKalb County Medical Examiner's Office since October 2019.

 

Dr. Geller is an adjunct assistant professor at Emory University.  She is a rotation director and preceptor for the DeKalb County Medical Examiner’s Office Elective Rotations for medical students and residents offered by the Emory University School of Medicine and Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.  Dr. Geller enjoys mentoring medical students and residents with an interest in forensic pathology and encourages their research endeavors.  Dr. Geller enjoys speaking with high school and undergraduate students who would like to pursue a career in medicine or forensic science.  

 

Dr. Geller’s research interests include infectious disease pathology and genitourinary pathology.  Dr. Geller also studies health disparities as manifested in forensic pathology.  Dr. Geller has is the lead or contributing author of 14 published manuscripts and 17 presentations at national conferences.  One of Dr. Geller’s recent publications describes the pandemic experience of a busy metropolitan medical examiner’s office and describes key gross and microscopic findings that, with appropriate laboratory testing, should direct a pathologist towards a COVID-19-related cause of death.  

 

Dr. Geller also actively participates in the Grady Trauma Surgery Department’s Trauma Peer Review Committee.