Cindy Geyer, MD, has been teaching medicine for as long as she has been practicing it. She trained in internal medicine at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York — the program that pioneered the biopsychosocial model, treating the whole person rather than a collection of symptoms — and carried that approach into her first practice at the Neighborhood Health Center in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, a teaching practice where she cared for her community while helping train internal medicine residents from Berkshire Medical Center. From the beginning, her two callings were inseparable: good medicine, in her experience, is something you teach — to residents, to colleagues, and above all to patients.
In 1998, Dr. Geyer joined Canyon Ranch in Lenox, where she practiced integrative medicine for 23 years and served as medical director, leading one of the country's longest-running integrative medicine programs well before "lifestyle medicine" had a name or a board exam. Over the same two decades, she became one of its national teachers: core faculty at The Center for Mind-Body Medicine's Food as Medicine conference, where she has taught physicians and health professionals how to use nutrition and lifestyle to address the root causes of illness, and case series editor for the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, where clinical stories become teaching tools for practitioners everywhere.
Today Dr. Geyer sees patients at The UltraWellness Center in Lenox, Massachusetts. Triple board certified in internal, integrative, and lifestyle medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, she co-chairs ACLM's Women's Health Member Interest Group and its Healthy Aging for Women subcommittee, helping shape how the field cares for women through menopause and midlife. In the exam room, her teaching instinct is what patients notice first: she believes people heal best when they understand their own bodies — and that a doctor's most durable prescription is knowledge.
Away from the office, she is a mother, an avid hiker, and a longtime member of the Berkshire County community she has cared for across three decades — including service on the Pittsfield Board of Health and with the Healthy Pittsfield Partnership.