Erica Frank
Erica Frank is a U.S.-born educational inventor, physician, medical and educational researcher, politician, and public health advocate. Since 2006, she has been a professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC); she is the Inventor/Founder of NextGenU.org, and the steward of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize commemorative medal awarded to the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War - Canada. Education Frank (born in 1962) received a B.A. in Honors and Independent Studies degree from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1982, an M.D. degree in 1988 from Mercer University (Macon, Georgia) and an M.P.H. degree in 1984, with an emphasis on Health Education and Epidemiology, from Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia). She interned from 1988 to 1989 at the Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio), completed a preventive medicine residency in 1990 at Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut), was an NIH Prevention Research Fellow from 1990 to 1993 at Stanford University (Palo Alto, California) in preventive medicine, and is board certified in preventive medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine. Professional experience In 2006, Frank became the Tier I Canada Research Chair in Preventive Medicine and Population Health at UBC. Before moving