BENJAMIN GILMER

Dr. Benjamin Gilmer is a Family Medicine physician in Fletcher, North Carolina. A former Albert Schweitzer Fellow, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine at Chapel Hill and at MAHEC, the Mountain Area Health Education Center. A former neurobiologist turned rural family practitioner, he is committed to teaching, advocating for social justice in medicine, and using the latest brain science to understand and heal crime. Dr. Gilmer has lectured extensively about medical ethics, bias in medicine, and criminal justice reform all across the country.