Bio
Tina Foster is a practicing obstetrician-gynecologist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, and vice-chair for education in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and preventive medicine. She is program director for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency, a unique residency focused on the improvement of health and healthcare services for populations served by Dartmouth-Hitchcock. At The Dartmouth Institute, she co-directs the Microsystem Academy and leads two courses in the residential Master of Public Health program as well as the practicum course for its online program. She has also taught in Dartmouth’s Master of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) and The Dartmouth Institute's online certificate programs. From 2013-2014 she served as national director for the Veteran's Affairs Quality Scholars and chief resident in Quality and Safety programs. She is a member of the leadership team for the International Coproduction of Health Network (ICOHN). Other areas of interest include cognitive simulation, patient safety, effective communication, and encounter-based decision aids. A graduate of University of California San Francisco medical school, she earned an MPH in 1998 from the Harvard School of Public Health and an MS in 2001 from Dartmouth’s Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (now The Dartmouth Institute) while she was a fellow in the Veteran's Affairs Quality Scholars national fellowship program in White River Junction, VT.