Meghan Galer, MD

Dr. Meghan Galer is a board-certified emergency medicine physician and the founder of ColGACare in Columbus, Georgia. She earned her MD in 2011 from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, then completed her residency in emergency medicine in 2014 at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington. Before medical school she spent more than ten years volunteering as a paramedic with the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad.

While stationed at Fort Benning, she started the world's first Heat Center for the study and prevention of exertional heat illness, and that posting is what brought her to Columbus in the first place. Frustrated with corporate medicine, she set out to restore the doctor-patient relationship and opened ColGACare in 2021 as part of the direct primary care movement.