Marshall Forstein MD

Dr. Marshall Forstein graduated from the University of Vermont com. He works in Cambridge, MA and specializes in Psychiatry. Dr. Forstein has taught in the patient-doctor course, and in the "Living with Life Threatening Illness Course" at Harvard Medical School. He was asked to participate as core faculty in the program in Palliative Care Education and Practice directed by Susan Block and Andy Billings. He teaches nationally and internationally on HIV and AIDS, and on sexual orientation and gender identity formation, 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.