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Erica Frank, is an United States-born physician, medical researcher and activist now working in Canada. Frank is Professor in the School of Population and Public Health, and the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia. She specializes in preventive medicine^{[citation needed]}, and her research emphasizes the degree to which a clinician's positive health habits influences patients' positive health habits^{[citation needed]}.

Contents 1 Positions 2 Personal life 3 Education 4 Research 5 Awards and Accomplishments 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Positions

Frank is a UBC Tier I Canada Research Chair in Preventive Medicine and Population Health and a Senior Scholar of the The Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Health Sciences Online, the largest and most comprehensive ad-free health sciences information portal^{[citation needed]}; she is also an active volunteer^{[citation needed]} and environmentalist^{[citation needed]} and the immediate past President of Physicians for Social Responsibility^{[citation needed]}.

Previously, until 2006, she was full Professor, Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, and Director of the Division of Preventive Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia^{[citation needed]}.

She was Co-Editor in Chief of the scientific journal, Preventive Medicine from 1994 to 1999^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Personal life

She is the daughter of Ulrich Anton Frank, who was a biomedical engineer with many patents and a prolific painter and sculptor, and Ruth Esser Frank, a former professor of education at Bucks County Community College. Erica Frank is married to Randall White, a Vancouver psychiatrist^{[citation needed]} and environmentalist^{[citation needed]}, and is the mother of Ridge Frank-White^{[citation needed]}. She was from 1999 till 2006 a former resident of the Lake Claire cohousing community^{[citation needed]}, and together with her husband she co-designed^{[citation needed]}, built^{[citation needed]}, and inhabited^{[citation needed]} the only energy independent home in Georgia (1995-2006)^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Education

Frank received a M.D. degree in 1988 from the Mercer University)^{[citation needed]} and a M.P.H. degree^{[citation needed]}, with an emphasis on Health Education and Epidemiology, in 1984 from the Emory University)^{[citation needed]}. Also, she completed a residency in 1990 at the Yale University)^{[citation needed]} and performed a fellowship training from 1990 til 1993 at the Stanford University) in preventive medicine^{[citation needed]}, and is board certified in preventive medicine^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Research

Frank's research has focused on physician's preventive habits^{[citation needed]}. This work has led to develop the Healthy Doc - Healthy Patient project^{[citation needed]}, a series of programs to improve physicians' prevention counseling by improving their personal health practices^{[citation needed]}. Frank has done extensive research^{[citation needed]} on the extent to which physicians' habits shape their patients' habits^{[citation needed]}. She has published over 100 articles^{[citation needed]} including four first-authored JAMA citations^{[citation needed]}, and articles in other major peer-reviewed medical journals such as the The Lancet^{[citation needed]}, BMJ^{[citation needed]} and Annals of Internal Medicine^{[citation needed]}.

As Principal Investigator, Frank conducted "The Women Physicians’ Health Study". WPHS demonstrated that:

1. physicians’ health practices strongly and consistently influence their patient care practices and that
2. women physicians represent a high standard for adoption of health behaviors.

The study demonstrated that female physicians have healthy habits and that those physicians with the healthiest habits are most likely to encourage patients to adopt such habits. These data are summarized in a one-page JAMA paper,^[1] and in several dozen additional papers.

Frank was next the Principal Investigator of a national study at 17 U.S. medical schools^{[citation needed]}, showing that it is possible to cultivate personal health habits among medical students, and that these students are then more likely to counsel their patients about prevention^{[citation needed]}.

Frank continues her Healthy Doc = Healthy Patient work by expanding the lens of her research to include international collaborations, including leading the Canadian Physician Health Study in 2007-2008, and work in Colombia, Laos, and Cambodia^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Awards and Accomplishments

Frank has been lauded in the scientific community for her work in public health and preventive medicine. She is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha (a national medical honor society)^{[citation needed]}, and her work has been recognized in a number of awards, including:

• The AMA/Pettis Award, for her work as the outstanding U.S. medical student communicator (1987)^{[citation needed]}
• The American College of Preventive Medicine’s (ACPM’s) “Rising Star Award” (in 1996, the first year this award was offered)^{[citation needed]}
• The Outstanding Alumnus Award from the Rollins School of Public Health (1998)^{[citation needed]}
• Featured as an “ecoheroine” by Atlanta Woman magazine (2005)^{[citation needed]}
• Appointed as Canada Research Chair (2006)^{[citation needed]}

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• earlier bio at The Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
• Official web page at The University of British Columbia
• Health Sciences Online