Cory Foster, M.D. completed both her A.B. and M.A. at Stanford University. She received her medical degree and completed her general surgical residency at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. During her residency, she did clinical research in the intensive care unit and went on to become a Surgery Fellow in surgical nutrition at Johns Hopkins University. She was presented with the Humaneness in Medicine Award by the Philadelphia County Medical Society in 1990. Dr. Foster is certified by the American Board of Surgery and is an Associate Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. She joined Surgical Associates of Ithaca in 1996, and two years later became the local lead investigator in a diagnostic study leading to the use of lymphatic mapping and sentinel node biopsy in treating breast cancer at Cayuga Medical Center, where she also heads the Multidisciplinary Breast Cancer Committee. Dr. Foster has special interest and expertise in endocrine-system surgery, including thyroid and parathyroid surgery.