Sean D. Foster, MD
Emergency Medicine
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Emergency Medicine Penn Presbyterian
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Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

Education and training

  • Medical School: University of Virginia
  • Residency: University of Cincinnati Medical Center

Insurance accepted

My 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.
Dr. Foster is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

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