Associate Director, Research Director, Resiliency & Well-being Center
Program Director, Integrative Medicine
Executive Director, Office of Integrative Medicine and Health
Associate Professor, Clinical Research and Leadership / Physician Assistant Studies
George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Washington, DC
Website: https://framecorrlab.smhs.gwu.edu/
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leigh-Frame
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ABOUT DR. FRAME
Dr. Leigh Frame brings nutrition and immunity together through clinical, translational research. Her T-shaped expertise in health, wellness, science, and medicine was developed through her wide-ranging experience in biomedical research (from wet bench to clinical research) and overseeing research and education programs, including the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Parkinson’s Disease Biomarkers Program (PDBP). She has extensive experience in the design of studies of all sizes and phases of research including secure, accurate data collection, and data safety and management.
She is the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Recondite Consulting, which works with the pharmaceutical industry to improve clinical outcomes by identifying dietary and lifestyle factors affecting efficacy and safety. She serves on the boards of several healthcare and biotech companies and nonprofits globally. She is the co-host of the GW Integrative Medicine Podcast.
Dr. Frame is building an Integrative Medicine research program at the George Washington University School of Medicine while directing the graduate education programs and the Office of Integrative Medicine and Health. She is also the co-founder and Associate Director of the GW Resiliency & Well-being Center. Her interests include the role of the microbiome and nutrition in health, the consequences of malnutrition in obesity, vitamin D as an immune-modulatory hormone, research ethics, and social media. Along with strengthening and cultivating the footprint of evidence-based Integrative Medicine at GW, Dr. Frame is broadening the foundation used to prepare students for professional certifications with an emphasis on expanding nutrition education. “GW is uniquely situated as a university that is growing and very forward-thinking,” she said. “It has its finger on the pulse of medicine and Integrative Medicine, which is the future of health care.”
Dr. Leigh Frame earned a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry with Distinction in the Major from Mary Baldwin College (now Mary Baldwin University) in Staunton, Va. She is a double graduate of the prestigious Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Md., where she earned a Master of Health Science in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and a Doctor of Philosophy in International Health: Human Nutrition.
AWARDS & ACCOLADES
In 2021, the International Forum for Advanced Healthcare named her among the Top 100 Health Care Leaders.
TOP PUBLICATIONS
Google Scholar Profile: Citations: 1173, h-index: 12, i10-index: 15 (06/13/2024)
Note: Underline indicates mentees
Peer-Reviewed Original Manuscripts
Corr P, Badawi A, Vu S, Frame LA. Outdoor Physical Activity as a Confounder for Vitamin D Status: Findings from a Scoping Review. Nutr Rev. In Revision.
Protocol Preprint: Corr P, Badawi A, Vu S, Frame LA. Outdoor Physical Activity as a Confounder for Vitamin D Status: A Scoping Review Protocol. medRxiv. January 2023. doi: 10.1101/2023.01.30.23285088
Hands JM, Corr PG, Frame LA. Clarifying the heterogeneity in response to vitamin D in the development, prevention, and treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus: A narrative review. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20126187
Hands JM, Patrick R, Frame LA. Comment on Vitamin D and Risk for Type 2 Diabetes in People With Prediabetes: Vitamin D supplementation, prediabetes, and T2DM – Is there a role for Immunologic Dysregulation?. Ann Intern Med. 2023. DOI:10.0.21.179/1f87ef05-0d06-4999-8894-b5f948d829e2
Full Correspondence: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/L23-0201
Frame LA, Fischer JP, Geller G, Cheskin LJ. Use of Placebo in Supplementation Studies—Vitamin D Research Illustrates an Ethical Quandary. Nutrients. 2018, 10, 347. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu10030347
Peterson LA, Zeng X, Caulfield-Noll CP, Schweitzer MA, Magnuson TH, Steele KE. Vitamin D status and supplementation before and after bariatric surgery: a comprehensive literature review. SOARD. 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soard.2016.01.001
Peterson LA, Cheskin LJ, Schweitzer MA, Magnuson TH, Steele KS. Treatment for vitamin D deficiency prior to bariatric surgery: a prospective cohort study. Obesity Surgery. 2015. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-016-2115-2
Peterson LA, Canner JK, Cheskin LJ, Prokopowicz GP, Schweitzer MA, Magnuson TH, Steele KS. Proxy measures of vitamin D status — season and latitude — correlate with wound complications and length of stay after bariatric surgery in the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, 2001-2010: a retrospective cohort study. Obesity Science & Practice. 2015. https://doi.org/10.1002/osp4.15
Peterson LA, Cheskin LJ, Furtado M, Papas K, Schweitzer MA, Magnuson TH, Steele KS. Malnutrition in bariatric surgery candidates: Multiple micronutrient deficiencies prior to surgery. Obesity Surgery. 2015. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-015-1844-y
Invited Reviews
Peterson LA. Bariatric surgery and vitamin D: key messages for surgeons and clinicians before and after bariatric surgery. Minerva Chirurgica. October 2016;71(5):322-36. PMID: 27280871.
Expert Opinion
Peterson LA. Early, Personalized Vit D Needed After Bariatric Surgery: Most patients go into surgery malnourished. MedPage Today. 2016.