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Erica Frank
Erica Frank
Professor, Former Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Preventive Medicine and Population Health
604–822–2772
erica.frank@ubc.ca
2206 East Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3
About
Erica Frank, MD, MPH, FACPM is a Professor in the School of Population and Public Health and the Department of Family Medicine, in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia.
Dr. Frank’s research examines globally-scaled education interventions (especially in healthcare, public health, STEM, and substance use disorders) and is the Founder/Inventor (in 2001) of NextGenU.org (with learners registered in every country for free education and certificates). She is the Founder/Principal Investigator of the Healthy Doc = Healthy Patient initiative (demonstrating and building on the strong and consistent relationships between physicians’ personal and clinical practices), the Past President (2008) of Physicians for Social Responsibility, and the former Editor of Preventive Medicine.
Dr. Frank is available to co-supervise students.
Former Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Preventive Medicine and Population Health
Nominated by U.S. Congressman John Lewis and selected as U.S. National Library of Medicine “Local Legend” (2004)
Recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, presented by the American College of Preventive Medicine (2012)
Recipient of the first Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award presented by the American College of Preventive Medicine (2015)
In addition to Frank’s research on the efficacy of NextGenU.org to improve health, her other research has revealed how physicians’ (and medical students’) personal and clinical prevention habits strongly and consistently influence their patients’ habits. This work has led to her developing the Healthy Doc – Healthy Patient initiative, a series of studies and programs to improve physicians’ prevention counseling by improving their personal health practices.