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Dr. Jay S. Luxenberg is director of medical services at the Jewish Home, San Francisco, a 430-bed skilled nursing facility with an acute geropsychiatric hospital unit. Dr. Luxenberg's academic rank is clinical professor, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. He teaches medical students, medical residents, and geriatric fellows, as well as lectures at UCSF continuing education programs. He also teaches students at U.C. Berkeley.

Until 1996, Dr. Luxenberg was the director of the geriatric medicine fellowship at University of California, San Francisco. He had a private practice of geriatric medicine from 1987-1996. After completing a fellowship in geriatric medicine, he spent 1984-87 as a medical staff fellow in the Section on Brain Aging and Dementia, Laboratory of Neurosciences, at the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Luxenberg is currently the editor of the web page and serves on the Board of Directors of the International Psychogeriatrics Association. He is also on the board of directors of On Lok, Inc. and On Lok Health Services, which provide comprehensive health care to indigent and low income seniors in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has published many research papers, reviews and book chapters. His most recent book is Residential Care: Your Role in the Health Care Team. Dr. Luxenberg's research interests relate to dementing illnesses and changes that occur in the brain as part of healthy aging. He is particularly interested in the behavioral problems and sleep alterations associated with dementing illnesses.