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Guido Frank, MD
- Specialties:
- Psychiatry
- Conditions:
- Eating Disorders, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity (ADHD), Anxiety
Meet Guido Frank, MD
I am board certified in adult as well as child and adolescent psychiatry. In addition, I received extensive formal training in psychotherapy (CBT, family therapy, dynamic therapy, Feldenkrais, hypnotherapy). This combination of clinical training together with my training and experience in brain research gives me a fairly unique perspective on psychiatric disorders and treatment, taking into account all aspects of past and current experience together with potential biological underpinnings, as well as foster a neuroscience based approach to treatment. My utmost goal in this work is to improve the quality of life of the individual as well as the family system that a patient is embedded in. This starts with an empathic approach, careful assessment, thoughtful recommendation of treatment options and providing the family with the experience that their feedback is always welcome and that treatment is happening in a collaborative manner and taking all aspects of importance including culture specific experiences and attitudes into account. My extensive training in psychotherapy has always given me a special background to connect with and treat my patients in that way. One of my psychotherapy teachers once said that every patient has the right to be convinced that the treatment the clinician offers is appropriate and likely to be of help. I have always worked with families in that spirit and I believe this makes it easier for families to engage in the treatment process. A special emphasis of mine is always that the child or adolescent is as much as possible involved in the decision-making process and takes ownership in the process of treatment."There are a lot of strengths in children and their families, and I think it's important not just to look at the problem part, but also the strength part."
- Dr. Guido Frank
Get to know his background
Eating Disorders
Medical School 1994
Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich - Munich, Germany
Internship 2001
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Residency 2004
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Psychiatry
Fellowship 2007
University of California (San Diego) Program, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Christina Barz-Scholarship for the Promotion of Research in the Field of Eating Disorders 1997
Christina Barz Foundation
Pilot Grant Award, Obesity and Nutrition Research Center, University of Pittsburgh, PA 2000
University of Pittsburgh, PA
NARSAD Young Investigator Award 2001
NARSAD
AACAP Outstanding Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Resident Award 2004
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology (ASCP) Travel Fellowship 2004
American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology
Society of Biological Psychiatry Lilly Travel Fellowship Award 2004
Society of Biological Psychiatry
West Coast College of Biological Psychiatry Junior Faculty Research Award 2005
West Coast College of Biological Psychiatry
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Presidential Scholar Award 2005
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Fellowship Award for the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) 2005
Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP)
Mayo Clinic Psychiatric Genomics Course Teaching Prize 2006
Mayo Clinic
Davis Foundation Award / Klarman Family Foundation Grants Program in Eating Disorders Research 2008
Davis Foundation
Minority Access to Research Career Program (NIMH) Mentor Recognition 2008
NIMH
Developmental Psychobiologic Research Group Scientific Poster Award 2008
Developmental Psychobiologic Research Group
Developmental Psychobiologic Research Group Kaufman Scientific Award 2010
Developmental Psychobiologic Research Group
Vitals Patients’ Choice Award 2016 2017
Vitals
My research interests are primarily focused on investigating brain biology that underlies eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder. We are especially interested in understanding what biological circuits in the brain drive for instance food restriction, binge eating, or anxiety associated with body image. Ultimately, we hope that we identify medication that will make treatment easier, faster and more successful.
My research interests are primarily focused on the neurobiology of eating disorders. My lab uses brain imaging methods to better understand the neurobiology underlying behaviors such as food restriction in anorexia nervosa or binge eating in bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder.
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