Nancy Foster, PhD

Psychology
Munroe-Meyer Institute
985450 Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198-5450

Phone: 308-234-5613
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Professional Summary

Dr. Nancy Foster received her baccalaureate, masters, and doctorate degrees in Psychology from Mississippi State University. Her PhD in School Psychology was awarded in 2005. She interned at Father Flanagan’s Boys Town before completing a rural post-doctoral fellowship with the Munroe-Meyer Institute (MMI). Dr. Foster is currently an outreach psychologist for the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) MMI Behavioral Clinic located at Children's Physicians-Kearney. In collaboration with physicians and nurses from the clinic, Dr. Foster provides outpatient behavioral health services within this primary care office for children and adolescents with presenting problems including disruptive behavior disorders, sleep, feeding, toileting problems, habits and tics, and school problems. She provides psychology services for the MCHP Clinics (Genetics, Craniofacial and Specialty) in Kearney and North Platte.

Dr. Foster also engages in research as Co-director of a multidisciplinary obesity program for children ages 6-11 and their families. She is an active clinician and provides education and supervisory experiences for interns from the Nebraska Internship Consortium in Professional Psychology and post-doctoral fellows from the MMI training program. Additionally, Dr. Foster is an associate director of internship training at MMI and coordinator for the Rural Integrated Care internship training track.

Education

• PhD, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, MS, 2005
• MS, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, MS, 1999
• BA, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, MS, 1996

Courses Taught

• Child and Adolescent Behavioral Characteristics
• Statistics
• Abnormal Psychology
• General Psychology
• Psychology of Learning, Psychology of Interpersonal Relationships
• Appraisals of Individuals and Systems
• Applied Psychology

Research Interests and Projects

• Childhood Obesity
• Stigma and Behavioral Health Services in Rural Areas

Professional Affiliations

• American Psychological Association
• Nebraska Psychological Association