About Me
David Michael Geller is a caregiver. He has supported caregivers as a social worker, a physician and a photographer.
He is a recipient of the 2012 David J. Levinson Award in photography and 2014 Kenneth Fulp Memorial Award in photography.
His caregiver portraits and stories were on exhibit in 2019 at the Chrysler Museum of Art, in 2024 at the Duke Caregiver Community Event and in other venues. His work was presented at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, was featured by the Virginian-Pilot, the Daily Press, the Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitation Services and utilized in the education of medical students, residents and post graduate trainees through the Glennan Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University, and presented at the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies.
He holds an MSW from Smith College school for Social Work, MD from Temple University School of Medicine (now the Lewis cat school of Medicine at Temple University), completed an Internal Medicine Residency at Abington Memorial Hospital (now the Jefferson Health Abington Hospital), and the Geriatric Medicine Fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
He has served as President of the Board of Arts for Learning, Virginia, a leading provider of arts-in-education for children.
Geller lives in Virginia. He enjoys photography, non-fiction, adventure, stories, and long walks wherever they take him.