Nicholas Frank, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, an equine clinician and researcher with expertise in laminitis, metabolic syndrome, and endocrinology, has been named the chair of the Department of Clinical Sciences at Tufts University’s Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine in North Grafton, Mass.

As chair of the veterinary school’s largest department, Frank will lead a group of nearly 50 academic and clinical faculty who serve clients in the Cummings School’s hospitals, teach throughout the doctor of veterinary medicine program, and undertake groundbreaking research to improve animal and human health.

Frank comes to Tufts from the veterinary faculty at the University of Tennessee, where, as an equine internist, he was section chief of large animal medicine and led the Center for Equine Veterinary Research. He is an award-winning teacher and also serves as a consulting member of the University of Nottingham faculty in the United Kingdom. Frank has excelled as a clinician-scholar in the field of equine internal medicine and endocrinology.

"To join Tufts as department chair of such a talented and accomplished faculty represents a wonderful challenge and a true honor," Frank said. "Several of Tufts’ clinical programs are renowned nationally and worldwide, and I look forward to building upon the clinical, research, and teaching programs already in place