Exemplary Leader: Rebera Foston, M.D. MPH, MATS, DMin
Dr. Rebera Foston is an ordained minister, a retired Ephebiatrician, (a physician who only treats teenagers) and a Holistic Mentor. She is the author of 24 published works and recently completed 20 additional books of poetry which brings her Master collection of poetry to 40 volumes. Her most famous poem to date is entitled “ You Don’t Live on My Street,”. It turns thirty-five years old and is still attracting fans and helping teens win their campus queen titles. Dr. Foston was born and raised in Gary, IN and is a 1970 Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa Graduate of Fisk University. She is also a 1974 graduate of Meharry Medical college and received her master’s in public health from UNC, Chapel Hill in 1981. She completed her Residency in Family Practice in 1984 and became a Board-Certified Family Practitioner with her emphasis in Adolescent Health. That same year she received her Post Doctorate in Teaching Family Medicine from Michigan State. In 1988 she became the first female Health Commissioner of Gary. She simultaneously received her Master of Arts in theological Studies and her Doctorate in Ministry from United Theological Seminary in 1999. She became ordained in 2001.
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