Dr. Goeckeritz provides comprehensive training to internal medicine resident physicians.

Expertise

 After completing his fellowship, Dr. Goeckeritz practiced as an Army physician for 11 years, serving the last two years as a staff physician at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and as a researcher at Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland. As a military physician, Dr. Goeckeritz received several distinguished awards, including the Bronze Star for his service in Operation Desert Shield/Storm, the Meritorious Service Medal and the Joint Service Commendation Medal. He has also received three Army Commendation medals, the Southwest Asia Service Medal with two stars and the National Defense Service Medal. 

Dr. Goeckeritz established Lexington Rheumatology in West Columbia, South Carolina, in September 2009. Before starting this practice, he was an associate professor in the Department of Medicine, Rheumatology, at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, ending his tenure there as program director for its Rheumatology Fellowship program. 

Background

 Dr. Goeckeritz graduated from Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee, with a bachelor’s degree in religion and earned his medical degree from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis. He then completed his internal medicine residency at Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center in Augusta, Georgia, where he served as chief resident, and a rheumatology fellowship at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.