• Fellowship Periods
    • 2017-2018 Academic Year
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Bio

Dr. Tanya Foster has worked as a consultant internist at the National Chest Hospital and an associate lecturer in the Department of Medicine at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. She received her MBBS and Doctor of Medicine, Internal Medicine, degrees from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. In order to further enhance her patient advocacy role, she completed a post-graduate diploma in Health Management.

A clinician at heart, she recently completed a one-year clinical fellowship in Adult Respiratory Medicine at the University of Toronto, and subsequently undertook a one-year clinical fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at the same university.
When she is not in clinical practice, she dedicates her time to a number of church/community-based activities.

Affiliations

  • Member, Association of Consultant Physicians of Jamaica
  • Clinical Fellow, UHN - SHS Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto

Significant Publications

  • Chin SN, Foster T, Char G, Garrison A. Concomitant Urothelial Cancer and Renal Tuberculosis. Case Reports in Urology. 2014;2014:625153.
  • Foster TM, Lee MG, McGaw CD and Frankson MA. Knowledge and Practice of Occupational Infection Control among Healthcare Workers in Jamaica. West Indian Medical Journal 2010;59(2):147-152
  • Foster TM,  Lee  MG,  McGaw  CD  and  Frankson  MA. Prevalence  of  Needlestick  Injuries  and  Other  High  Risk Exposures  among  Health-workers  in  Jamaica.  West  Indian Medical Journal 2010;59(2):153-158