Dr. Jim Geiling currently serves as Chief of the Medical Service and Director of the Intensive Care Unit at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in White River Junction, VT, a component of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. He is also a Professor of Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. Following his undergraduate education at Bucknell University, he attended the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland where he received his MD degree in 1982. He then embarked upon a 25-year career in the Medical Corps of the US Army, which included serving 9 years in Germany and deploying to the Ukraine, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and elsewhere.  During his career he completed his medical training in Internal Medicine in San Francisco and later Critical Care Medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He also studied disaster preparedness and medical response during a one-year fellowship with the DHHS’ Office of Emergency Preparedness. In 2000 he assumed command of the 200-person medical clinic in the Pentagon, a position where he ironically was called upon to practice his training in preparedness on September 11, 2001 and later that year during the anthrax attack. Dr. Geiling

retired from the Army in 2003 to come to his current position. In addition to his clinical, teaching, and administrative duties with the VA, he serves as Co-Director of DHMC’s New England Center for Emergency Preparedness. In 2010 with Dartmouth and in support of Partners in Health, he led a disaster-response team to Port Au Prince, Haiti following its earthquake. He has written and spoken extensively in the field of disaster medicine, with recent work focusing on mass critical care. Finally, he as served in leadership positions for disaster-related activities for both the Society of Critical Care Medicine and American College of Chest Physicians.