Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Dr. Frank is the Associate Director of the Brown Research on Implementation and Dissemination to Guide Evidence Use (BRIDGE) Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. In this role, she provides training, mentoring, and consultation on topics related to implementation science. Dr. Frank received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Temple University in 2020. She completed her residency training and T32 postdoctoral fellowship at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University in the Pediatric Anxiety Research Center at Bradley Hospital.
Dr. Frank's research focuses on using implementation science methods to increase clinician adoption and sustainment of evidence-based interventions for internalizing disorders. Specifically, she has clinical expertise in exposure therapy for anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). She has led formative work focused on designing implementation strategies to support therapists to overcome their own anxiety about using exposures. In addition, Dr. Frank has collaborated on research spanning a range of content areas and using several implementation science methods including formative evaluation, community engagement, design and tailoring of implementation strategies, assessment of implementation mechanisms, and implementation outcome assessment. Dr. Frank has led and mentored several qualitative and mixed methods studies focused on assessing contextual factors that influence the implementation of evidence-based interventions. Her work spans multiple settings, including schools, hospitals, community mental health centers, and community-based organizations.
