Faculty/Staff

Geriatrics Education
Clinical Care

Research

Grant Funding


Ralston Center



Mary Ann Forciea, M.D.

Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
Senior Fellow of the Institute on Aging

University of Pennsylvania
Division of Geriatric Medicine
Ralston-Penn Center
Room 230
3615 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2676

Telephone: (215) 898-1548
Facsimile: (215) 349-5648
E-mail: forciea@med.upenn.edu


Education


1975 MD Duke University
1971 BS Marquette University

Postgraduate Training and Fellowship Appointments
1975-78 Residency in Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Hospital Minneapolis, MN
1978-81 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Geriatrics
1978-79 Geriatric Unit, Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland
1979-80 Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine,
University of Minnesota
1980-82 The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA
1981-82 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Endocrinology ,Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, The Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Research/Clinical Interests

  1. Prevention in late life
  2. Exercise benefits in the elderly

Biographical Sketch

Mary Ann Forciea, MD is the Director of Primary Care Services for the Division of Geriatric Medicine, and the Director of the Delaware Valley GEC at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Forciea was the recipient of one of the first group of Academic Awards of the NIA, and is a past winner of the Clinician of the Year Award of the American Geriatric Society. She is consistently nominated as a "Top Doc" in Geriatric Medicine by Philadelphia Magazine. She serves as the Senior Editor of Geriatric Secrets.


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