Elyse Foster

MD

Director of Adult Echocardiography and Congenital Heart Disease

About me

Dr. Elyse Foster directs the UCSF Adult Echocardiography Laboratory and Adult Congenital Heart Disease Clinic. She specializes in assessing cardiac function with echocardiography (heart ultrasound), including use of exercise and pharmacologic stress testing to detect obstructions causing insufficient blood supply. 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 for Adult Congenital Heart Disease and American College of Cardiology's women in cardiology committee.

  • Education

    Tufts University School of Medicine, 1977

  • Residencies

    Boston Medical Center, Internal Medicine, 1980

  • Fellowship

    Boston Medical Center, Cardiovascular Diseases, 1983

  • Board Certifications

    Cardiovascular Disease, American Board of Internal Medicine/Cardiovascular Disease

    Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine

  • Academic Title

    Professor

Conditions I specialize in

Adult Congenital Heart Disease Clinic

535 Mission Bay Blvd. South
San Francisco, CA 94158

(415) 353-2873
M-F, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Cardiovascular Care and Prevention Center at Mission Bay

535 Mission Bay Blvd. South
San Francisco, CA 94158

(415) 353-2873
M-F, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Cardiovascular Genetics Program

535 Mission Bay Blvd. South
San Francisco, CA 94158

(415) 353-2873
Tu | Th, noon - 4 p.m

ECG/ Stress Testing/ Nuclear Cardiology Laboratories at Parnassus

505 Parnassus Ave., Suite M-372
San Francisco, CA 94143

(415) 353-1931
M-F, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Echocardiography Lab at Mount Zion

1600 Divisadero St., Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94115

(415) 353-1262

Echocardiography Lab at Parnassus

505 Parnassus Ave., Suite M-372
San Francisco, CA 94143

(415) 353-1262
M-F, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

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