Dr. Foose loved serving as Director of the Anxiety Disorders Treatment Program at UCSF (where she continues to teach about fear and anxiety in the School of Medicine.) When she decided to build a psychiatry practice closer to home, she wanted to bring that specialty focus to her own community. Anxiety and fear are protective emotions, adapted to enhance our physical and mental readiness and prepare us for future threats. So how do such helpful (albeit uncomfortable) emotions come to cause us so much distress and impairment? Dr. Foose has spent the last 15 years of her career building the answer to that question.
Speaking events, Podcasts, Press:
Kentfield School District (2024) Speaker: “Anxiety as Superpower”
Tamalpais Union High School District (2023) Speaker: “Anxious Teens”
Mill Valley Film Festival (2022) Panelist: “Anxious Nation.”
NPR: (2022) Guest, KALW Your Call with Rose Aguilar, “How to Find Help for Depression and Anxiety.”
American Physician Institute (2021) Ask the Expert: Anxiety Disorders
NPR: (2020) Guest, KQED Forum with Mina Kim, “How to Cope in a Time of Cumulative Stress and Anxiety,” and follow-up article by Carly Severn, “Managing Anxiety in the Age of Everything.”
Mill Valley Film Festival (2019) Panelist: “Angst.”
Association for Academic Psychiatry (2017) Speaker: "Who's Afraid of Translational Neuroscience?"
NPR: (2012) Interviewed, Morning Edition, Amy Standen, Your Health: "Nail Biting: Mental Disorder Or Just A Bad Habit?"
NPR: (2012) Guest, Science Friday with Ira Flatow, book club discussion: "Monkey Mind."
New York Times: (2010) Interviewed, "First Camera, Then Fork."
NPR: (2010) Guest, KQED Forum with Michael Krasney, "Psychedelics Conference."
NPR: (2009) Guest, KQED Forum with Michael Krasney, "Obsessive Compulsive Disorder."
Publications :
Encyclopedia of Neurological Sciences: Chapter: Anxiety Disorders (2014) Academic Press
San Francisco Chronicle (2013) Health Columnist: "Positive Traits Seen in Anxiety Disorders"
UCTV: (2012) Speaker: "Sport Suspension on Life's Bumpy Road"
Social Anxiety Disorder and Alcohol Use Disorder (2010) Psychological Medicine. June 2010; 40(6): 977-88.
education and experience:
University of California San Francisco, UCSF Weill Institute of Neurosciences:
Associate Professor, UCSF School of Medicine:
UCSF Academy of Medical Educators Excellence in Teaching Award
UCSF Residents Association Excellence in Teaching Award
Director, UCSF Anxiety Disorders Program (2009-2017)
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons:
Residency Training (2008)
Medical School (2004)
Columbia University B.A. Liskin Award in Psychiatry
Licensure:
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Board Certification & Licensed by Medical Board of California.