Guido Frank, M.D.,
Research Fellow in Psychiatry
UCSD, Eating Disorders Program
Department of Psychiatry
e-mail: gfrank@ucsd.edu
T:  (858) 622-6180
F:  (858) 534-6727

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Dr. Frank received his medical training at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, and was trained extensively in psychotherapy at the Klinik Roseneck, Prien, Germany. He started working with Walter Kaye, M.D., in 1998 as a Visiting Instructor. He completed Adult Psychiatry Residency Training in 2004 at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh. At that time he was recruited by the University of California San Diego to pursue a clinical and research fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Frank has received various awards including a NARSAD Young Investigator Award, and the Presidential Scholar Award from the American Academy for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Dr. Frank is working with Dr. Kaye on brain imaging studies that investigate the brain pathways that mediate taste perception in healthy women and women with a current eating disorder or an history of an eating disorder. Dr. Frank is also collaborating with Dr. Kaye’s group in Pittsburgh using positron emission tomography to study serotonin, dopamine and other neuroreceptors and their relationship to the pathophysiology of eating disorders.

In addition to eating disorder research, Dr. Frank has developed an interest in studying reactive aggressive behaviors in adolescents and is currently conducting a brain imaging study that investigates potential mechanisms of impulsive aggression.