Associate Professor of Medicine, Emory University Department of Medicine, Associate Director of Emory Hospital Medicine, and Medical Director at Emory Eastside Medical Center.

From January 1999 to July 2005 Dr. Heisler held a number of appointments including Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Director of the Division of General Medicine, and Vice-Chair for Clinical Affairs of the Department of Medicine at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta.

Dr. Heisler graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1971 with a B.A. in Political Science. He completed his medical degree at George Washington University in 1979 and a residency in Internal Medicine at the Oregon Health Sciences University in 1982. After two years in the U.S. Indian Health Service in New Mexico, Dr. Heisler accepted a position as Medical Director of Maua Methodist Hospital in rural northeast Kenya for 1984 and ’85. During 1985/86 Dr. Heisler completed a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at George Washington University . He received a Masters in Public Health from Harvard University in 1990. From 1991 through 1998 Dr. Heisler was at the Task Force for Child Survival and Development, a UN sponsored international health group affiliated with the Carter Center in Atlanta. From 1994 through 1998 Dr. Heisler was Director of Programs at the Task Force and played a major role in developing the World Bank funded global river blindness control program.
Dr. Heisler received the1990 Sorin Award from the University of Notre Dame for outstanding contributions to the University and serves on the Advisory Board of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at Notre Dame.