Cynthia Geppert, M.D.
Lecturer, Bioethics
Cynthia Geppert, M.D. is a consultation-liaison psychiatrist, palliative care physician, clinical ethicist, and theologian who retired from a long career in the Department of Veterans Administration as Senior Ethicist in 2025. She is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Bioethics at the Alden March Bioethics Center at Albany Medical College. Dr. Geppert has written over 300 publications and 2 books in the areas of end-of-life ethics, religion and spirituality, medical and clinical ethics education, and psychiatric and addiction ethics.
Education
- PgDip., History of Medicine, Society of Apothecaries
- Ph.D., (Theological Ethics) Charles Sturt University
- M.S., Jurisprudence (Health and Hospital law) Seton Hall Law School
- D.P.S., (Clinical Ethics) Alden March Bioethics Institute, Albany Medical College
- M.S., Bioethics Alden March Bioethics Institute, Albany Medical College
- M.P.H., A. T. Still University
- M.A., Religion (Ethics) Vanderbilt University
- Residency: University of New Mexico School of Medicine
- M.D., Long School of Medicine at the University of Texas Health San Antonio
- B.A. The Colorado College