# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edna-b-foa
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:29:54.733Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edna-b-foa"
name: "Edna B. Foa"
slug: "edna-b-foa"
description: "Edna Ben Jacob Foa was an Israeli professor of clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she served as the director of the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety. Foa was an authority in the field of psychopathology and treatment of anxiety. She approached the understanding and treatment of mental disorders from a cognitive-behavioral perspective."
tagline: "Israeli psychologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edna_Foa_David_Shankbone_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1937-12-28"
deathDate: "2026-03-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.73
  momentum:             12.32142857142857
  historical:           5.020772
  currentAttention:     68.45238095238095
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%AF%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "إدنا فوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_B._Foa"
    title: "Edna B. Foa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_Foa"
    title: "Edna Foa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A2%D7%93%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%90%D7%94"
    title: "עדנה פואה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_Foa"
    title: "Edna Foa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5340017"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump