David Foster (writer)

David Foster is an American television writer, producer and medical doctor best known for working as a writer/producer on the Fox medical drama series House.

Medical career
Foster graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1995. He attended school with Neal Baer, a pediatrician who would eventually become the executive producer of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. As a doctor he worked at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Harvard School of Public Health listening to patient's stories and diagnose uncommon illnesses, a skill which he would later utilize as a writer on House.

Television career
Foster would eventually move into television writing through Neal Baer, who hired him to freelance-write an episode of Law & Order: SVU entitled "Parts". The producers of House were impressed by his credentials and hired him as a consulting producer during the show's first season. Since then he has served as a writer and producer and was promoted to co-executive producer at the beginning of the seventh season.

House episodes

 * 1) "DNR" (1.09)
 * 2) "Mob Rules" (with John Mankiewicz) (1.15)
 * 3) "TB or Not TB" (2.05)
 * 4) "All In" (2.17)
 * 5) "Informed Consent" (3.03)
 * 6) "Needle in a Haystack" (3.13)
 * 7) "Mirror Mirror" (4.05)
 * 8) "House's Head" (with Peter Blake, Doris Egan, Russel Friend, and Garrett Lerner) (4.15)
 * 9) "Wilson's Heart" (with Peter Blake, Russel Friend, and Garrett Lerner) (4.16)
 * 10) "Birthmarks" (with Doris Egan) (5.04)
 * 11) "Big Baby" (with Lawrence Kaplow) (5.13)
 * 12) "Locked In" (with Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner) (5.19)
 * 13) "Broken" (with Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner, and David Shore) (6.01 / 6.02)
 * 14) "Wilson" (6.10)
 * 15) "Baggage" (with Doris Egan) (6.21)
 * 16) "Unplanned Parenthood" (7.05)
 * 17) "Last Temptation" (with Liz Friedman) (7.19)
 * 18) "Transplant" (with Liz Friedman) (8.02)
 * 19) "Nobody's Fault" (with Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner) (8.11)
 * 20) "'Holding On" (with Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner) (8.21)

Awards and nominations
In 2010, Foster won a Writers Guild of America Award for "Broken", an episode of House, which he shared with Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner and David Shore.