Hannah E Frank, PhD is a postdoctoral fellow at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and at the Pediatric Anxiety Research Center at Bradley Hospital. She completed her graduate training at Temple University under the mentorship of Dr. Philip C. Kendall. Dr. Frank's research and clinical work is focused on exposure-based treatments for anxiety disorders and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Dr. Frank has clinical experience working in several settings treating youth with anxiety and OCD, including an outpatient clinic, a community mental health center, and a partial hospitalization program. Dr. Frank's research interests include: 1) Improving strategies for providing training and consultation to clinicians; 2) Identifying strategies to support community organizations in the adoption of evidence-based practices, including exposure therapy; and 3) Improving access to exposure-based treatments for youth. Dr. Frank has led trainings on exposure therapy for a variety of audiences, including teachers, school-aged students, undergraduate and graduate students, community mental health clinicians, and other professionals. She has received grant funding to support her research, including funding as a principal investigator on an NIMH-funded project that assessed a novel approach for training clinicians to use exposure therapy.
