Guido K.W. Frank

Dr. Frank is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego and a board-
certified adult, child, and adolescent psychiatrist. He earned his medical degree from the
Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany. He trained in psychosomatics at the Center
for Behavioral Health Klinik Roseneck, Prien, Germany, and then at the Western Psychiatric
Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, and the University of California San Diego, USA.

Dr. Frank has been studying the neurobiology of eating disorders for the past 30 years and has
been funded through the National Institute of Mental Health and numerous private foundation
grants for the past twenty years. His overarching goal is to develop translational models that
bridge clinical presentation with neuroscience to develop more effective treatments for eating
disorders.

Dr. Frank’s work introduced computational model-based brain imaging to the field of
eating disorders, used multimodal imaging to develop transdiagnostic models for structural and
effective connectivity across eating disorders that bridged anxious traits with eating disorder
behaviors, and more recently has been investigating ketogenic dietary therapy to treat eating
disorders.

Awards

• 2022 Rady Children’s Hospital CFP Award for Excellence in Clinical Care, Research and Teaching
• 2020 Teaching Excellence Award, UCSD Department of Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Training Program
• 2019 Eating Disorder Foundation Greg Hueni Memorial Award for Excellence in Research
• 2017 Vitals Patients’ Choice Award 2016
• 2010 Developmental Psychobiologic Research Group Kaufman Scientific Award
• 2008 Davis Foundation Award / Klarman Family Foundation Grants Program in Eating Disorders
• 2008 Minority Access to Research Career Program (NIMH) Mentor Recognition
• 2008 Developmental Psychobiologic Research Group Research Award
• 2008 Developmental Psychobiologic Research Group Scientific Poster Award
• 2006 Mayo Clinic Psychiatric Genomics Course Teaching Prize
• 2005 American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Memorial Travel Award
• 2005 West Coast College of Biological Psychiatry Junior Faculty Research Award
• 2005 American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Presidential Scholar Award
• 2005 Fellowship Award for the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP)
• 2004 AACAP Outstanding Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Resident Award
• 2004 American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology (ASCP) Travel Fellowship
• 2004 Society of Biological Psychiatry Lilly Travel Fellowship Award
• 2001 NARSAD Young Investigator Award
• 2000 Obesity and Nutrition Research Center Pilot Research Award, University of Pittsburgh, PA
• 1997 Christina Barz-Scholarship for the Promotion of Research in the Field of Eating Disorders

Number of Publications

140+

Years of Clinical Experience & Estimated Number of Patients Treated

30 years of clinical experience; several thousand patients treated