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Adam Frank

Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences

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Awards

  • Stanford University & University of Pittsburgh: Career Development Institute for Psychiatry, 2024
  • American Psychiatric Association: APA Research Colloquium, 2023
     – 2024
  • Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program: CTSA Fall Meeting Poster Awardee, 2023
  • American Psychiatric Association: Kempf Fund Award for Research Development in Psychobiological Psychiatry, 2023
  • Keck School of Medicine of USC: Department of Psychiatry Faculty Travel Award, 2021
  • TMS Health Education: TMS Symposium Resident Scholarship, 2019
  • UCLA: Ray E. & Louise T. Teal MSTP Fellowship, 2016
     – 2017
  • Dendrites 2014 Conference: 1st Place Best Poster Award, 2014
  • UCLA: Hagan-Schneider Medical Student Award, 2009
  • University of Pittsburgh: Bradler Award for Undergraduate Research, 2007
  • University of Pittsburgh: Allison K. Bentley Biological Sciences Award, 2004

Education and Training

  • University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA — 06/2021 — Psychiatry
  • University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA — MD — 06/2017 — Medicine
  • University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA — PhD — 05/2015 — Neuroscience
  • University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA — BA — 05/2007 — History and Philosophy of Science
  • University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA — BS — 05/2007 — Neuroscience

Research Funding

  • Perspective on Mobile and Wearable Technology Use in Individuals with OCD: A Qualitative Study
    Brain & Behavior Research Foundation · Jan 15, 2024 – Jan 14, 2026 · Role: Principal Investigator
  • Utilization of machine learning approaches on multimodal and ambulatory data to characterize obsessive-compulsive disorder and predict treatment response
    SC CTSI (NIH/NCRR/NCATS) · Apr 1, 2022 – Mar 31, 2025

Media

Publications

  • Disparities in the Clinical Provision of Deep Brain Stimulation: A Systematic Scoping Review and Grounded-Theory Qualitative Analysis. Mov Disord Clin Pract. 2025 Oct; 12(10):1463-1489.. View in PubMed
  • Deceased Donor Renal Allograft Utility in Adult Single and Multi-organ Transplantation in the United States. Transplant Direct. 2025 Jan; 11(1):e1744.. View in PubMed
  • Therapeutic DBS for OCD Suppresses the Default Mode Network. Hum Brain Mapp. 2024 12 15; 45(18):e70106.. View in PubMed
  • Protocol for a scoping review of factors associated with disparities in clinical provision of deep brain stimulation. BMJ Open. 2024 03 21; 14(3):e079601.. View in PubMed
  • Tractography-based DBS lead repositioning improves outcome in refractory OCD and depression. Front Hum Neurosci. 2023; 17:1339340.. View in PubMed
  • Intracranial beta activity is a biomarker of circadian and stimulation-induced arousal in obsessive compulsive disorder. Brain Stimul. 2024 Jan-Feb; 17(1):29-31.. View in PubMed
  • Wearable and Mobile Technologies for the Evaluation and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Scoping Review. JMIR Ment Health. 2023 Jul 18; 10:e45572.. View in PubMed
  • Neuromodulation of OCD: A review of invasive and non-invasive methods. Front Neurol. 2022; 13:909264.. View in PubMed
  • Identification of a personalized intracranial biomarker of depression and response to DBS therapy. Brain Stimul. 2021 Jul-Aug; 14(4):1002-1004.. View in PubMed
  • Hotspots of dendritic spine turnover facilitate clustered spine addition and learning and memory. Nat Commun. 2018 01 29; 9(1):422.. View in PubMed

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