Through research, clinical programs and leadership, Dr. Ray Foster improves care for individuals and for the nation.

Foster has dedicated his entire career to helping women with urinary incontinence and vaginal prolapse. He joined the medical school faculty in 2007, and as the first trained urogynecologist to work at the University of Missouri, he was charged to build a new program to help women with incontinence, prolapse and other pelvic floor symptoms. Foster now leads the Missouri Center for Female Continence and Advanced Pelvic Surgery, which exceeds 5,000 clinic visits and 450 surgical procedures per year.

The standard of care in urogynecology is rapidly changing as new research is published. Fortunately for mid-Missouri women, much of that research is completed by Foster and his team of physicians, advanced practice nurses and basic science researchers — including the new standard for using antibiotics after urinary incontinence surgery.

Foster also seeks to impact care through involvement in positions of national leadership. He currently serves as treasurer of the American Urogynecologic Society, the nation’s flagship organization for doctors committed to helping women with pelvic symptoms adversely impacting quality of life.

Dr. Ray Foster is the medical director of urogynecology and an associate professor in the School of Medicine’s Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health.

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• Female Incontinence
• Voiding Dysfunction
• Genital Prolapse
• Sacral Neuromodulation
• Gynecologic Surgery
• Urinary-Tract Infection
• Urodynamics
• Urogynecology
• Women's Health Care

• Bladder Control Problems
• Bowel Control Problems
• Difficulty with Emptying the Bladder or Bowel
• Poor Support of the Pelvic Organs (Bladder, Rectum and Uterus)
• Vaginal Fistula Involving the Urinary Tract or Bowel