James Frank, MD

Dr. Frank is a clinician-educator and Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco where he works in both undergraduate and graduate medical education. He is a medical student coach in the UCSF Bridges Curriculum and site director for the Clinical Microsystems Clerkship at the San Francisco VA site. He also directs the medical student critical care immersion experience and ICU acting internship at the site. Dr. Frank is the program director for the UCSF Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program, and is the president of the Association for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors (APCCMPD), which represents 95% of pulmonary and critical care fellowship training programs in the US. His clinical work includes critical care medicine, co-leading the pulmonary embolism response team, thoracentesis service and neuromuscular/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis respiratory clinic at the SFVA. His current academic interests include education leadership, teaching quality improvement and communication skills, professional coaching, and curriculum development and implementation.