Barnett Frank is an educator, researcher, and clinician who’s career has been driven by an interest in athletics, medicine, and the opportunity to help others. In his pursuit of prioritizing evidenced-based healthcare he came to realize the need for not only quality educators, but also researchers and clinicians to ensure the best possible care.
“I find reciprocity in my responsibilities as a clinical
sports medicine professional that provides healthcare to athletes and as a
researcher and educator who strives to provide clinicians with the best
possible evidence-based practice founded on rigorous research. Through my
research role as an educator I aim to provide sports medicine professionals
with an arsenal of clinical practices that will ensure the highest level of
care for their athletes and patients,” he notes.
As an IU student in the School of Public Health, Frank
considered his mentors and the faculty to be important components to his
overall success. He noted that, “Ultimately, the mentors I had as I was an
undergraduate student at IU have become my lifelong mentors and some have
become my best friends. The tenure tract and clinical faculty, as well as
clinical staff in sports medicine served as my role models, and as I progressed
in my career, true friends. Till this day I still rely on many of them for
advice and guidance.”
Since his days at IU, Frank has become an esteemed member of
the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He enjoys his responsibilities
as an educator teaching undergraduate exercise science students the basic
principles of athletic injury management, as a researcher for laboratory and
field data collection, data management, and data analysis, and as a clinician
working with athletes with significant knee injuries.
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