El Paso Sleep Center Physicians

Amallia A. Geller, M.D.

Amallia A. Geller, M.D. is faculty at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L. Foster School of Medicine as a assistant professor of Neurology and a member of the El Paso Sleep Center. Dr. Geller began her career in medicine initially as a registered pharmacist and continued on to obtain her medical degree at the University of the East in the Philippines. Dr. Geller completed an internship in general pediatrics at the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Women and Children followed by a 4 year fellowship in child neurology at the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine.

Following this training she completed an additional fellowship in neurophysiology and epilepsy at the University of California, Irvine. During this fellowship Dr. Geller became interested in sleep physiology and its impact on epilepsy. After completion of this fellowship Dr. Geller had an opportunity to practiced child neurology in an under served area of California for 3 years. It was during this period that an opportunity presented for her to undergo a formal (ACGME-approved), Sleep Medicine Fellowship. Dr. Geller underwent the formal sleep medicine fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. This is the only ACGME approved training program in the United States. The fellowship encompassed both pediatric and adult sleep medicine.

Dr. Geller has special interests in pediatric and adult sleep medicine that pertain to epilepsy, post traumatic stress and REM sleep.