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University of Nebraska Medical Center

Nancy L. Foster, PhD

Assistant Professor, MMI Department of Psychology
Licensed Psychologist at Children's Physicians, Kearney

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Nancy L. Foster, PhD

Nancy L. Foster, PhD, is currently an outreach psychologist for the University of Nebraska Medical Center Munroe-Meyer Institute's Department of Psychology Behavioral Health Clinic located at Children's Physicians-Kearney. In collaboration with physicians and nurses from the clinic, 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 Mentally Handicapped Children's Program Clinics (genetics, craniofacial and specialty) in Kearney and North Platte.

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, Foster is an associate director of internship training at MMI and coordinator for the Rural Integrated Care internship training track.

  • Foster interned at Boys Town before completing a rural post-doctoral fellowship with the Munroe-Meyer Institute.
  • PhD: School Psychology, Mississippi State University, 2005.
  • MS: Psychology, Mississippi State University, 1999.
  • BA: Psychology, Mississippi State University, 1996.

Foster provides patient care services at UNMC Munroe-Meyer Institute Department of Psychology.

Clinic Location: Children's Physicians-Kearney (a Behavioral Health Collaborating Clinic)

  • Abnormal psychology.
  • Applied psychology.
  • Appraisals of individuals and systems.
  • Child and adolescent behavioral characteristics.
  • General psychology.
  • Psychology of learning, psychology of interpersonal relationships.
  • Statistics.
  • Childhood obesity.
  • Stigma and behavioral health services in rural areas.
  • American Psychological Association.
  • Nebraska Psychological Association.