Dr. Shari Kogan is the medical director of geriatric services at The Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. She has been lucky enough to have trained in institutions that honor the unique specialty of geriatrics, including The Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and the John A. Burns School of Medicine in Honolulu. During her time in the United States Air Force, she developed the curriculum for geriatric medicine for Air Force internal medicine residents in the years that geriatric medicine was in its infancy.