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Susan R Foerster
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Susan R Foerster, MD

Pediatric Cardiology
Children’s Wisconsin since 2010
  • Program director, interventional cardiology, Herma Heart Institute, Children's Wisconsin
  • Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin

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Dr. Foerster was born in Canada and trained there in Pediatrics before being offered a training position at Boston Children’s Hospital. She accepted a subspecialty fourth year of training in Boston in interventional cardiac catheterization, her current area of specialization. She worked in St. Louis at Washington University in St. Louis for six years before coming to work in Milwaukee at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Children's Wisconsin.

Certifications

  • Pediatric Cardiology

Areas of Interest

  • Pediatrics
  • Cardiology
  • Cardiac catheterization
  • Congenital heart disease
  • General pediatric cardiology
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Education and Awards

Education

  • 1996, University of Manitoba-Faculty of Medicine, MD

Residencies

  • 2000, Children's Hospital Health Sciences Centre-Winnipeg - Pediatrics

Fellowships

  • 2004, Boston Children's Hospital - PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY (PEDIATRICS)

Research and publications

Publications

McLennan DI, Maldonado JR, Foerster SR, Handler SS, LaDisa JF Jr, Gudausky TM, Guillory RJ 2nd.  Absorbable metal stents for vascular use in pediatric cardiology: progress and outlook.  Front Cardiovasc Med.   2024;11:1410305 PMID: 39165257 PMCID: PMC11334478 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85201532770 08/21/2024

Quinn BP, Gunnelson LC, Kotin SG, Gauvreau K, Yeh MJ, Hasan B, Lozier J, Barry OM, Shahanavaz S, Batlivala SP, Salavitabar A, Foerster S, Goldstein B, Divekar A, Holzer R, Nicholson GT, O'Byrne ML, Whiteside W, Bergersen L.  Catheterization for Congenital Heart Disease Adjustment for Risk Method II.  Circ Cardiovasc Interv.   2024 Mar;17(3):e012834 PMID: 38258562 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85187996297 01/23/2024

Barry OM, Gudausky TM, Balzer DT, Bocks ML, Boe BA, Callahan R, El-Said H, Farias MJ, Foerster S, Goldstein BH, Holzer RJ, Janssen D, Levy P, O'Byrne ML, Rahman G, Sathanandam S, Shahanavaz S, Whiteside W, Turner ME.  Safety and Short-Term Outcomes for Infants < 2.5 kg Undergoing PDA Device Closure: A C3PO Registry Study.  Pediatr Cardiol.   2023 Aug;44(6):1406-1413 PMID: 36995404 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85151376766 03/31/2023

Quinn BP, Yeh M, Gauvreau K, Ali F, Balzer D, Barry O, Batlivala S, Berman D, Foerster S, Goldstein B, Hainstock M, Holzer R, Janssen D, O'Byrne ML, Shirley L, Trucco S, Whiteside W, Bergersen L.  Procedural Risk in Congenital Cardiac Catheterization (PREDIC3T).  J Am Heart Assoc.   2022 Jan 04;11(1):e022832 PMID: 34935425 PMCID: PMC9075192 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85118533490 12/23/2021

Yeh MJ, Shirley L, Balzer DT, Boe BA, El-Said H, Foerster S, Gauvreau K, Gudausky TM, Hainstock MR, Maschietto N, Nicholson GT, Quinn BP, Shahanavaz S, Trucco S, Whiteside W, Bergersen L.  Interpreting Quality Improvement When Introducing New Technology: A Collaborative Experience in ASD Device Closures.  Pediatr Cardiol.   2022 Mar;43(3):596-604 PMID: 34743224 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85118527879 11/08/2021

Spearman AD, Gupta A, Pan AY, Gudausky TM, Foerster SR, Konduri GG, Ramchandran R.  sVEGFR1 Is Enriched in Hepatic Vein Blood-Evidence for a Provisional Hepatic Factor Candidate?  Front Pediatr.   2021;9:679572 PMID: 34195162 PMCID: PMC8236596 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85115450112 07/02/2021

Brown MA, Vo N, Pohlman J, Moehlmann M, Foerster SR.  Congenital right internal mammary artery to portal vein arteriovenous malformation.  Clin Imaging.   2021 Mar;71:101-105 PMID: 33186870 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85096166008 11/14/2020

Quinn BP, Cevallos P, Armstrong A, Balzer D, El-Said H, Foerster S, Glatz AC, Goodman A, Goldstein B, Hainstock M, Janssen D, Kreutzer J, Latson L, Leahy R, Petit C, Shahanavaz S, Trucco S, Whiteside W, Zampi JD, Bergersen L.  Longitudinal Improvements in Radiation Exposure in Cardiac Catheterization for Congenital Heart Disease: A Prospective Multicenter C3PO-QI Study.  Circ Cardiovasc Interv.   2020 May;13(5):e008172 PMID: 32408819 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85084787958 05/16/2020

Spearman AD, Gupta A, Pan AY, Gronseth EI, Thirugnanam K, Gudausky TM, Foerster SR, Ramchandran R.  Hepatic Vein Blood Increases Lung Microvascular Angiogenesis and Endothelial Cell Survival-Toward an Understanding of Univentricular Circulation.  Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg.   2020 Winter;32(4):980-987 PMID: 32387780 PMCID: PMC7647938 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85086171858 05/11/2020

Vasutakarn Chongthammakun, Michael E. Mitchell, Todd M. Gudausky, Peter J. Bartz, Susan R. Foerster .  Cardiac Arrest Secondary to Traumatic Aortopulmonary Window During Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Implantation in Supported Ross   J Am Coll Cardiol Case Rep. .   2019 Dec, 1 (5) 746-750. 12/19/2019


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