Senior Research Fellow
Lori Frank, Ph.D., joins NAC as Senior Research Fellow, bringing extensive expertise in health research with a focus on caregiving, memory screening, and dementia services. Previously, Dr. Frank served as the inaugural President of Women’s Health Access Matters (WHAM), a non-profit accelerating funding for women’s health research, and as Senior Vice President for Research at the New York Academy of Medicine.
Her distinguished career includes founding and directing the Evaluation and Analysis Program at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and serving as Executive Director of the Center for Health Outcomes Research at United BioSource Corporation. Dr. Frank completed her Health and Aging Policy Fellowship at the National Institute on Aging and has held research positions with Georgetown University, AstraZeneca, and the Department of Veteran’s Affairs.
Dr. Frank is Past-President of the International Society for Quality of Life Research, a Board member for the Personalized Medicine Coalition, and serves on the Medical, Scientific, and Memory Screening Advisory Board of the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America. She holds a Doctorate in Human Development/Gerontology from Pennsylvania State University and a Master’s degree in Psychology from Johns Hopkins University.
