Sean D. Foster, MD
Emergency Medicine
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Emergency Medicine Penn Presbyterian
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
My education and training
- Medical School: University of Virginia
- Residency: University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Spoken languages
English
English
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Emergency Medicine, 2015
- Alpha Omega Alpha, National
- American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), National
- Gold Humanism Honor Society, Arnold P. Gold Foundation, National
- Pennsylvania Medical Society (PAMED), Local
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
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): 2025
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): 2021,341-350
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 risk factors for delay , Amer J Emerg Med, 45: 2021,63-69
Foster SD, Lee K, Edwards C, Pelullo AP, Khatri UG, Lowenstein M, Perrone J Incentivizing Emergency Medicine Physician X-waiver Training: An evaluation of program success and post-intervention buprenorphine prescribing , Ann Emerg Med, Article In Press: 2020
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): 2019,1784-1787
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): 2018,2219-2224
Bryan Langlands and Durell Coleman Reimagining the ED:Ideas for Shaping the Emergency Department of the Future , FACILITY GUIDELINES INSTITUTE: 2018
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): 2015,233-236