The Author

Kenneth Frumkin, PhD, MD, FACEP studied physiological psychology (the interaction of the body’s basic biologic and neurologic mechanisms with behavior) in college and graduate school. He earned his Masters and Ph.D. degrees from McGill University for his work on the relative contributions of nature and nurture to the ingrained survival mechanism of poison-avoidance in rats.

After two years of research at the U.S. Army’s Biomedical Laboratories, mainly studying mechanisms of addiction in animals, he went on to medical school and a residency in emergency medicine. His 36-year medical career was split between community hospital emergency departments and teaching, research, and practice in military academic medical centers.

Board-certified in his specialty, Dr. Frumkin is the author of over three dozen peer-reviewed publications and textbook chapters in psychology and medicine. His article “How to Survive the Emergency Room” published in the AARP Bulletin, was a 2022 National Mature Media Merit Award winner. (A complete publication list and resume are at (www.linkedin.com/in/KennethFrumkinPhDMD).

A Fellow and Life Member of the American College of Emergency Physicians and their Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section, Dr. Frumkin is also an Emeritus member of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and their Academy of Geriatric Emergency Medicine.

Having retired as a civilian employee of the Department of the Navy in 2017, Dr. Frumkin remains a volunteer member of the academic faculty at the Emergency Medicine Residency, Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, Virginia.

Dr. Frumkin writes from the perspective of a practiced author and researcher and, most importantly, as a fellow senior citizen with “skin in the game.” He, too, is seeking the answers to nearly every older-person’s questions about their fluctuating memories and the possibility of progressive cognitive decline.