Robert Frank

Robert G. Frank, Ph.D. Robert G. Frank was selected as the 21st President of The University of New Mexico and took office on June 1, 2012. The University of New Mexico is the state’s largest institution of higher education and its flagship serving over 36,000 students across five campuses. UNM is home to the UNM Health Sciences Center, consisting of the School of Medicine and Colleges of Nursing and Pharmacy, as well as twelve schools and colleges. UNM is ranked in the top 100 research universities in the United States and Canada. In 2017, he left the presidency and currently serves as the Director of the Center for Innovation in Health & Education and as member of the faculty in the College of Population Health, the Department of Family & Community Medicine, and the Department of Psychology. Robert G. Frank previously served as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Kent State University since July 2007. During his tenure at Kent State, the university established a College of Public Health, increased enrollment and retention, and revised promotion and tenure rules. Dr. Frank is the former dean of the College of Public Health and Health Professions at the University of Florida, where he also served as a professor in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology. During his tenure at Florida, the College established the Public Health program and reorganized as what is now recognized as a CEPH-accredited College of Public Health. Dr. Frank holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from The University of New Mexico. He is a Diplomat in Clinical Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. He is past president of the Division of Rehabilitation Psychology of the American Psychological Association and a Fellow in Rehabilitation Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Health Psychology. He formerly chaired the Florida Developmental Disabilities Council, the Legislative Committee of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, and American Psychological Association’s Committee on Professional Continuing Education (1997) and its Board of Educational Affairs (2000). Dr. Frank’s scholarship focuses on two areas: psychological adjustment to catastrophic injury and health policy. June 2020