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Elyse Foster, M.D.

Director of adult Echocardiography and Congenital Heart Disease

Dr. Elyse Foster is director of the UCSF Adult Echocardiography Laboratory and Adult Congenital Heart Disease Service. She specializes in the assessment of cardiac function using echocardiography, including exercise and pharmacologic stress testing for ischemia detection. She also has a special interest in adult congenital heart conditions and valvular disease.

Foster earned a medical degree at Tufts University School of Medicine. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Boston Medical Center, where she also completed a fellowship in cardiovascular diseases. Foster is on the executive committee of the International Society of Adult Congenital Heart Disease and is on the Women in Cardiology Committee for the American College of Cardiology. She is board certified in both internal medicine and cardiovascular disease.

Clinics

Cardiovascular Care and Prevention Center at Mission Bay
535 Mission Bay Blvd. South
San Francisco, CA 94158
Phone: (415) 353-2873
Fax: (415) 353-2528

Hours: Monday to Friday
8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Cardiovascular Genetics Program
400 Parnassus Avenue, Plaza Level, Room 94
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-2873
Fax: (415) 476-5355

Hours: Monday
noon – 4 p.m

Congenital Heart Disease Clinic
535 Mission Bay Blvd. South
San Francisco, CA 94158
Phone: (415) 353-2873
Fax: (415) 353-8687

Hours: Monday and Tuesday
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Thursday
1 – 4:30 p.m.

ECG/ Stress Testing/ Nuclear Cardiology Laboratories at Parnassus
505 Parnassus Ave., Suite M-344
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-1931
Fax: (415) 353-8675

Hours: Monday to Friday
8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m

Echocardiography Lab at Mount Zion
1600 Divisadero St., Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94115
Phone: (415) 885-7321
Fax: (415) 885-7849

Hours: Monday
1 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Tuesday
8a.m. – 12 p.m.

Wednesday and Friday
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Thursday
8 a.m. – 4:40 p.m.

Echocardiography Lab at Parnassus
505 Parnassus Ave., Suite M344
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-1262
Fax: (415) 353-8675

Hours: Monday to Friday
8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Conditions & Treatments

More about Elyse Foster

Education

Tufts University School of Medicine 1977

Residencies

Boston Medical Center, Internal Medicine 1980

Fellowships

Boston Medical Center, Cardiovascular Diseases 1983

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Rao RK, Foster E. Rethinking mitral valve surgery during the golden years. Circulation. 2013 May 7; 127(18):1843-6.
  2. Knappe D, Pouleur AC, Shah AM, Bourgoun M, Brown MW, Foster E, Pfeffer MA, Moss AJ, Solomon SD. Acute Effects of Withdrawal of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy on Left and Right Ventricular Function, Dyssynchrony, and Contractile Function in Patients With New York Heart Association Functional Class I/II Heart Failure: MADIT-CRT. J Card Fail. 2013 Mar; 19(3):149-55.
  3. Hope MD, Wrenn J, Sigovan M, Foster E, Tseng EE, Saloner D. Imaging biomarkers of aortic disease: increased growth rates with eccentric systolic flow. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012 Jul 24; 60(4):356-7.
  4. Hsu JC, Solomon SD, Bourgoun M, McNitt S, Goldenberg I, Klein H, Moss AJ, Foster E. Predictors of super-response to cardiac resynchronization therapy and associated improvement in clinical outcome: the MADIT-CRT (multicenter automatic defibrillator implantation trial with cardiac resynchronization therapy) study. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012 Jun 19; 59(25):2366-73.
  5. Glower D, Ailawadi G, Argenziano M, Mack M, Trento A, Wang A, Lim DS, Gray W, Grayburn P, Dent J, Gillam L, Sethuraman B, Feldman T, Foster E, Mauri L, Kron I. EVEREST II randomized clinical trial: predictors of mitral valve replacement in de novo surgery or after the MitraClip procedure. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2012 Apr; 143(4 Suppl):S60-3.
  6. Levine GN, Steinke EE, Bakaeen FG, Bozkurt B, Cheitlin MD, Conti JB, Foster E, Jaarsma T, Kloner RA, Lange RA, Lindau ST, Maron BJ, Moser DK, Ohman EM, Seftel AD, Stewart WJ. Sexual activity and cardiovascular disease: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2012 Feb 28; 125(8):1058-72.
  7. Whitlow PL, Feldman T, Pedersen WR, Lim DS, Kipperman R, Smalling R, Bajwa T, Herrmann HC, Lasala J, Maddux JT, Tuzcu M, Kapadia S, Trento A, Siegel RJ, Foster E, Glower D, Mauri L, Kar S. Acute and 12-month results with catheter-based mitral valve leaflet repair: the EVEREST II (Endovascular Valve Edge-to-Edge Repair) High Risk Study. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012 Jan 10; 59(2):130-9.
  8. Ordovas KG, Carlsson M, Lease KE, Foster E, Meadows AK, Martin AJ, Hope M, Do L, Higgins CB, Saeed M. Impaired regional left ventricular strain after repair of tetralogy of Fallot. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2012 Jan; 35(1):79-85.
  9. Brenyo A, Link MS, Barsheshet A, Moss AJ, Zareba W, Wang PJ, McNitt S, Huang D, Foster E, Estes M, Solomon SD, Goldenberg I. Cardiac resynchronization therapy reduces left atrial volume and the risk of atrial tachyarrhythmias in MADIT-CRT (Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial with Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy). J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011 Oct 11; 58(16):1682-9.
  10. Hope MD, Dyverfeldt P, Acevedo-Bolton G, Wrenn J, Foster E, Tseng E, Saloner D. Post-stenotic dilation: Evaluation of ascending aortic dilation with 4D flow MR imaging. Int J Cardiol. 2012 Apr 19; 156(2):e40-2.
  11. Goldenberg I, Moss AJ, Hall WJ, Foster E, Goldberger JJ, Santucci P, Shinn T, Solomon S, Steinberg JS, Wilber D, Barsheshet A, McNitt S, Zareba W, Klein H. Predictors of response to cardiac resynchronization therapy in the Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial with Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (MADIT-CRT). Circulation. 2011 Oct 4; 124(14):1527-36.
  12. Foster E. The role of exercise testing for predicting pregnancy outcomes in women with congenital heart disease. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2011 Aug; 13(4):269-70.
  13. DeFaria Yeh D, Lonergan KL, Fu D, Yeh RW, Echt DS, Foster E. Clinical factors and echocardiographic techniques related to the presence, size, and location of acoustic windows for leadless cardiac pacing. Europace. 2011 Dec; 13(12):1760-5.
  14. Barsheshet A, Wang PJ, Moss AJ, Solomon SD, Al-Ahmad A, McNitt S, Foster E, Huang DT, Klein HU, Zareba W, Eldar M, Goldenberg I. Reverse remodeling and the risk of ventricular tachyarrhythmias in the MADIT-CRT (Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial-Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy). J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011 Jun 14; 57(24):2416-23.
  15. Cepkova M, Kapur V, Ren X, Quinn T, Zhuo H, Foster E, Matthay MA, Liu KD. Clinical significance of elevated B-type natriuretic peptide in patients with acute lung injury with or without right ventricular dilatation: an observational cohort study. Ann Intensive Care. 2011; 1(1):18.
  16. Pouleur AC, Knappe D, Shah AM, Uno H, Bourgoun M, Foster E, McNitt S, Hall WJ, Zareba W, Goldenberg I, Moss AJ, Pfeffer MA, Solomon SD. Relationship between improvement in left ventricular dyssynchrony and contractile function and clinical outcome with cardiac resynchronization therapy: the MADIT-CRT trial. Eur Heart J. 2011 Jul; 32(14):1720-9.
  17. Knappe D, Pouleur AC, Shah AM, Cheng S, Uno H, Hall WJ, Bourgoun M, Foster E, Zareba W, Goldenberg I, McNitt S, Pfeffer MA, Moss AJ, Solomon SD. Dyssynchrony, contractile function, and response to cardiac resynchronization therapy. Circ Heart Fail. 2011 Jul; 4(4):433-40.
  18. Siegel RJ, Biner S, Rafique AM, Rinaldi M, Lim S, Fail P, Hermiller J, Smalling R, Whitlow PL, Herrmann HC, Foster E, Feldman T, Glower D, Kar S. The acute hemodynamic effects of MitraClip therapy. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011 Apr 19; 57(16):1658-65.
  19. Feldman T, Foster E, Glower DD, Glower DG, Kar S, Rinaldi MJ, Fail PS, Smalling RW, Siegel R, Rose GA, Engeron E, Loghin C, Trento A, Skipper ER, Fudge T, Letsou GV, Massaro JM, Mauri L. Percutaneous repair or surgery for mitral regurgitation. N Engl J Med. 2011 Apr 14; 364(15):1395-406.
  20. Shah AD, Foster E, Cucina RJ. Mitral regurgitation and pulmonary edema. J Gen Intern Med. 2011 Sep; 26(9):1075-6.

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