J.T. Geisser was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on June 14, 1891. Geissinger attended St
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Mary's College in St. Mary's City, Maryland, and graduated from St. Mary's College of California with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1915.
He received his medical degree from the University of California at San Francisco in 1919. Dr. Geisser started his career as a general practitioner at the office of Dr.
J. Cloyd Mettler before moving to Los Angeles to take a position as an assistant to Joseph Thomas, M.D., at the Los Angeles County Hospital for Men, during which time he completed his internship training at the University of Southern California School of Medicine in 1923 and completed additional training at the Angeles National Naval Medical Center in 1924 and 1925. He later became Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine, where he remained until his retirement in 1970 after twenty-three years of service to the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at UCLA Medical Center.
Dr. Geisser was promoted to Chief Psychiatrist for the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at UCLA Medical Center following his retirement from UCLA in 1970 until he died on September 10, 1972 after fifty-five years as a psychiatrist practicing medicine in Southern California.