Cy Frank
Cy Frank is a Professor in the Division of Orthopaedics/Department of Surgery, University of Calgary/Alberta Health Services. He is a Senior Investigator, Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions, the McCaig Professor of Joint Injury and Arthritis Research; Executive Director of the provincial Alberta Bone & Joint Health Institute (ABJHI); and Vice President, Research Strategy, Alberta Health Services. He still practices knee surgery and enjoys research and teaching at the U of C. He currently co-leads a 32 member provincial AIHS Team Grant that studies Osteoarthritis from the bench to the bedside, and he is one of the founding Co-Owners of recently sold TENET Medical Engineering, a Calgary based company which manufactures and distributes surgical positioning devices to over 35 countries world-wide.
Recent honors include being chosen as alumnus of the year at the U of C in 2002, International Bone and Joint Decade “Builder” in 2005, top 40 alumni at U of C in 2006 and an award of Merit from the Canadian Arthritis Network in 2011. Cy Frank is one of 300 current members elected to the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS) based on achievement in the academic health sciences in Canada.
He was the National Chair of a Blue Ribbon International Panel for CAHS - “Defining the Best Framework and Metrics to Capture Returns on Investment in Health Research”. That report was published in January 2009 and is still being disseminated internationally. In March 2011 he and his ABJHI colleagues received a Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canadian Medical Association Journal Top Achievements in Health Research for 2010 Award for their work on “Improving access to hip and knee replacement and its quality by adopting a new model of care in Alberta”.
Alberta Bone and Joint Health Institute website:
http://www.albertaboneandjoint.com/boardofdirectors.asp
AIHS Newsletter articles:
http://www.ahfmr.ab.ca/researchnews/2010/summer/jointissues/
http://www.ahfmr.ab.ca/publications/newsletter/Winter05/www.files/inside/institute.htm
http://www.ahfmr.ab.ca/news/2010-09-21.php
AIHS Alberta Osteoarthritis Team
University of Calgary Article:
http://medicine.ucalgary.ca/about/tenet
Cy Frank in the News:
http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/04/12/boomeritis/
