Francis Michael Forster was an eminent physician and neurologist, a former dean of the Georgetown University School of Medicine, and an internationally recognized expert on the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy.

[1] Based largely on his research work in that area, Forster was invited to head the department of Neurology at Georgetown University School of Medicine as Professor & Chair, in 1950.

At that institution, he expanded the teaching and clinical services in neuropsychiatry to include three affiliated hospitals in Washington, D.C., while continuing his personal research efforts in the study of epilepsy.

[4] Frank's skills as an administrator were increasingly recognized by his peers at Georgetown, and when Paul McNally, the dean of the medical school, became ill with coronary artery disease in 1952, Forster was chosen as his replacement.

Even though Forster's style was conversational and collegial, he was extremely adept politically and saw a tripling of extramural grant funding at Georgetown during his deanship.

[6] He remained on the active teaching and research faculty of UWMS for the next 20 years, and was subsequently the director of the Forster Epilepsy Center at the William Shainline Middleton Veterans Administration Hospital [7] in Madison until 1982.

[1] Because of his stature as an internationally-known neurologist and his local prominence in the area of Washington, D.C., Forster was called as a consultant in November 1957 to treat President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had suffered a mild stroke.

Ruby's attorney, Melvin Belli, developed a premise for the defense wherein his client's aggressive behavior was explained by the presence of psychomotor-type temporal lobe epilepsy.