Healthcare today leaves you stuck between two inadequate choices: rushed medical visits that barely scratch the surface, or wellness programs without real medical expertise. You deserve better.

Pioneering Wellness bridges that gap with physician-led care and expert coaching that empowers lasting change. We’re reimagining healthcare to be proactive, personal, and built around real-life transformation—one patient at a time.

Your Care. Your Life.

Health reimagined for You.

Healthcare the way it should be.

Dr. Charissa Geyer—a board-certified internist, wellness coach, and former fitness instructor—brings a fresh, real-world perspective to healthcare. As a minority female physician and experienced leader, she’s seen firsthand how patients are often given advice without the tools or support to follow through.

Pioneering Wellness was built to change that. By combining medical care, coaching, and community in one physician-led model, we help clients build the confidence and skills to create lasting change across all areas of life. It’s not just healthcare—it’s whole-person transformation.

Meet Dr. Charissa Geyer, MD

My name is Dr. Charissa Geyer, and I started Pioneering Wellness with a vision to help support and guide individuals along a sustainable weight loss path. Having struggled with excess weight since childhood, I understand the discomfort of not feeling at home in your own body, the shame from years of negative comments about your appearance, and the frustration of ill-fitting clothes.  I’ve experienced the ups and downs of yo-yo dieting that lead to or exacerbate feelings of exhaustion, inadequacy, insomnia, depression, anxiety, and guilt, often to the detriment of relationships. 

It’s because of these challenges in my own life that I decided to offer people what would have helped me – a truly sustainable option that combines the latest science and medicine with the sensitivity and familiarity of a vintage door-to-door family doctor. 

Through valuable education, professional monitoring, proven pharmaceuticals (when needed), and progress assessments provided by a board-certified internal medicine physician, you can trust that your health is our utmost priority. 

Education
  • Bachelors Degree of Science in Public Health with Honors, concentration in Health Policy and Administration, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
  • Masters in Healthcare Administration, Virginia Commonwealth University 
  • Medical School, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
  • Internal Medicine Residency – Kettering, Ohio
Medical Qualifications
  • Hospitalist and Program Medical Director, Ohio/Indiana
  • Medical Director Specialty Care Services, New Mexico
  • Senior Medical Director Specialty Care, Colorado
  • Medical Director, Physician Advisor
  • National Medical Director, Hospital Medicine
  • Internal Medicine Board-Certified, American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) 
  • Certified Physician Executive (CPE), American Association of Physician Leaders (AAPL) 
  • Dayton Magazine’s Best Doc 2021, Geriatrician 
Lifestyle/Wellness Qualifications
  • Previous Zumba Certified Instructor 
  • Previous Athletics and Fitness Association of America/FitTour Certified Fitness Instructor 
  • Certified Health and Wellness Coach