Jeffrey Foster, M.D. has spent his clinical and academic career with Geriatric Psychiatry as a prominent focus. He has worked closely with primary care physicians, nurses, social workers and various medical and surgical specialists consulting in both hospital and outpatient settings. He is a former president of the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry and a recipient of the National Institute of Mental Health Geriatric Mental Health Academic Award. He has done federally funded longitudinal research in the long-term care setting (including Internal Medicine; Rehabilitation Medicine, and Skilled Nursing Facility areas). He is on the voluntary faculty of the Department of Psychiatry in the University of Colorado School of Medicine with the rank of Clinical Professor of Psychiatry.