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Paul Geisler, EdD, AT Ret.

Paul Geisler, EdD, AT Ret.

Associate Dean Geisler is a native of Lakeville, MA and current resident of Boston, MA. A certified athletic trainer since 1987 with over 15 years of varied clinical practice and 23 years' experience directing athletic training education programs at Georgia Southern University and Ithaca College. He is deeply interested in the development and assessment of the medico-clinical thinking processes of novice and experienced clinicians, the development of adaptive expertise in clinicians, progressive curriculum design, capability-based education, and meaningful programmatic assessment. He has over 170 national and international presentations and publications on clinical and educational based subjects in athletic training and health professions education to his credit. He is a member of the European Board of Medical Assessors, and past member of the Association of Medical Education, Europe.

As a scholar, he is the recipient of two manuscript awards from the Journal of Athletic Training and the Athletic Training Education Journal. For his many professional contributions, he has been the recipient of the NATA Athletic Training Service Award and NATA Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award. As an educator, he was awarded the NATA Executive Council on Education's Sayers "Bud" Miller Distinguished Educator Award in 2021 and has received two Dean's Awards for Excellence & Innovation in Teaching, a Dean's Excellence Award for Diversity and Inclusion in Teaching and Learning, and the all college Faculty Excellence Award, all from Ithaca College.

He admits to being an enthusiastic but slow road cyclist, an amateur shutterbug of nature and wonder, an aspiring wine snob and amateur foodie, and an unabashed promoter of equal rights, freedom, justice, and authentic democracy for all living beings. Susan, his life partner and wife of 34 years and he are fulfilled parents of two amazing young men – Nicholas, a writer living in Los Angeles, CA and Benjamin, a photographer and artist living in Brooklyn, NY.

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  • A Pathoanatomical Paradigm for Iliotibial Band Pathology: A Synthesis of Evidence
    Contains 5 Component(s), Includes Credits

    Evidence-based practice compels clinicians to challenge existing paradigms, especially when desired outcomes remain elusive. Insidious lateral knee pain involving the iliotibial band (ITB) in running based athletes has been conceptualized as ITB friction syndrome, an unsubstantiated clinical paradigm based on Renne's 1975 theory that the ITB rolls over the lateral femoral epicondyle during repetitive flexion/extension movements, irritating the ITB and underlying bursa. Contemporary anatomical, biomechanical, and interventional evidence directly challenges this long-held paradigm. Given this new evidence, ITB Impingement Syndrome is presented as a more robust, evidence-informed paradigm for evaluating and treating problematic ITB related pathologies.

  • Diagnostic Testing Series: Knee
    Contains 5 Component(s), Includes Credits

    Knee pathologies are common complaints for athletes and active patients presenting to athletic trainers for assessment and intervention, and though often not as complex as other joints in the body (ie, shoulder or hip), can present significant diagnostic challenges when imaging techniques are not readily or immediately available. Common traumatic disorders of the knee include forces that impact the menisci, ligaments, bones, and associated joints (ie, patellofemoral, tibiofemoral), while overuse injuries involving the patellofemoral joint, surrounding tissues (ie, IT Band), patellar tendon and tibiofemoral joint can challenge the unsuspecting diagnostician, as well. Undiagnosed, or improperly diagnosed knee conditions can also lead to lifelong disability and/or profound decreases in…