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Sean D. Foster, MD

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Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
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Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine
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Vice Chair, VA, Department of Emergency Medicine, UPHS
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21 7 BS 25 (Biology, Summa cum laude) c
2f University of Richmond, 2006.
21 7 MD c
42 University of Virginia School of Medicine, 2010.
21 e HQS Cert 30 (Healthcare Quality & Patient Safety) c
24 Penn CHIPS , 2023.
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24 63 Emergency Medicine Residency, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, 2010-2014.
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28 35 Advanced Trauma Life Support, 2014.
28 38 Pediatric Advanced Life Support, 2014.
28 36 Advanced Cardiac Life Support, 2014.
28 55 EMS Medical Command Physician, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , 2015.
28 4b Diplomate of American Board of Emergency Medicine , 2015.
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Selected Publications

104 Berg DM, Binkley A, Foster SD, Hinton M, Peiffer D, Huo SC, Torgerson J, Maguire C. : Clinical microbiology in xylazine-associated wound infections. Open Forum Infect Dis 12(8), Aug 2025.

1da Jaya Aysola; Justin T. Clapp; Patricia Sullivan; Patrick J Brennan; Eve Higginbotham; Matthew Kearney; Chang Xu; Rosemary Thomas; Sarah Griggs; Mohamed Abdirisak; Alec Hilton; Toluwa Omole; *Sean Foster;*Mira Mamtani: Understanding Contributors to Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Emergency Department Throughput Times: A Sequential Mixed Methods Analysis. Journal of Gen Int Med 37(2): 341-350, Aug 2021.

d5 Kemmler CB, Sangal RB, Rothenberg C, Li SX, Shofer FS, Abella BS, Venkatesh AK, Foster SD: Delays in antibiotic redosing: Association with inpatient mortality and 57 risk factors for delay. Amer J Emerg Med 45: 63-69, March 2021.

cb Foster SD, Lee K, Edwards C, Pelullo AP, Khatri UG, Lowenstein M, Perrone J: Incentivizing Emergency Medicine Physician X-waiver Training: An evaluation 85 of program success and post-intervention buprenorphine prescribing. Ann Emerg Med Article In Press, May 2020.

12b Agarwal AK, Foster S, Mrad CG, Martino B, Snider CK, Mazzone L, Fasnacht A, Patton K, Edwards C, Flamma J: Nursing driven approaches to improving emergency department discharge. Am J Emerg Med 37(9): 1784-1787, September 2019.

14c Foster, SD; Hart, K; Lindsell, CJ; Miller, CN; Lyons, MS: Impact of a low intensity and broadly inclusive ED care coordination intervention on linkage to primary care and ED utilization. American Journal of Emergency Medicine 36(12): 2219-2224, December 2018.

ff Bryan Langlands and Durell Coleman: Reimagining the ED:Ideas for Shaping the Emergency Department of the Future. FACILITY GUIDELINES INSTITUTE December 2018 Notes: cited contributor.

115 Foster SD, Lyons MS, Runyan CM, Otten EJ: A mimic of soft tissue infection: intra-arterial injection drug use producing hand swelling and digital ischemia. World J Emerg Med 6(3): 233-236, September 2015.

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