Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
| 1971 | B.A., Middlebury College |
| 1980 | M.D., College of Medicine, University of Vermont |
| 1980-1981 | Internship, Presbyterian Hospital, Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco |
| 1981-1984 | Residency in Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| 1984- | Staff Psychiatrist, Cambridge Hospital (CH), Cambridge, MA |
| 1989-2003 | Director, HIV Services, CH |
| 2003- | Director, Adult Psychiatric Residency Training, Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) / Harvard Medical School (HMS) |
Marshall Forstein, MD, has taught in the patient-doctor course, and in the "Living with Life-Threatening Illness Course" at HMS. He was asked to participate as core faculty in the Palliative Care Education and Practice (PCEP) course directed by Susan Block and Andy Billings. He teaches nationally and internationally on HIV and AIDS, on sexual orientation and gender identity formation, and on training mental health providers, primary care providers, and residents. He was a co-PI on a federal HIV training grant and continues to do teaching and training through the American Psychiatric Association's SAMHSA HIV Training Grant.
Current research interests include developing a brief neuropsychiatric screening tool for cognitive impairment in HIV. Assessing how cognitive impairments affect adherence to treatment and the processing of information about end-of-life care are two of his interests.
He served on the Robert Wood Johnson Workgroup on HIV Palliative Care and is currently the Chair of the Steering Committee on HIV Education and Training of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Forstein was a member of an Institute of Medicine Committee on Data Collection for HIV Services initiated by the Office of National AIDS Policy out of the White House.
He is currently serving on the Residency Review Committee for Psychiatry of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, reviewing residency training programs throughout the United States. In addition to the wonderful chance to prepare the next generation of psychiatrists, he is working with a multidisciplinary advisory group to develop palliative care at CHA and inserting teaching about end-of-life care into the psychiatric curriculum.