He was a postdoctoral fellow at VUMC in the Infectious Disease Division from 1995 to 2000 and was a post doc at University of Connecticut from 1991-1995. His graduate work was with the Pathobiology Department at University of Connecticut and his undergraduate was at the University of Maine, his home! Forsyth's current research involves bacterial pathogenesis, specifically, the human gastric pathogen, Helicobacter pylori.