Bianca K. Frogner, PhD

Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Family Medicine
Director, UW CHWS

Biography:

Bianca Kiyoe Frogner, PhD, Director of the Center for Health Workforce Studies, is also Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Family Medicine (DFM) in the School of Medicine at University of Washington (UW). Dr. Frogner serves on the leadership team of the UCSF Advancing Workforce Analysis and Research for Dementia (AWARD) Network. She is also a Governor-appointed member of the Washington state Health Care Cost Transparency Board and is the Chair of the Data Issues Advisory Committee of the Board. She has served on National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine committees, including most recently as co-chair of a workshop on the affordability of health professional education. She is on the Editorial Boards of Milbank Quarterly, Health Services Research, and Medical Care Research and Review. Dr. Frogner’s has produced about 200 publications including peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and reports. She has delivered over 250 scholarly presentations and has appeared in media outlets including CNN, NPR, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Vox, and Politico. She has received awards recognizing her excellence in both mentorship and research.

Other positions that Dr. Frogner holds include Director of the Primary Care Innovation Lab (PCI-Lab), housed in UW DFM, and Adjunct Professor in the Health Systems and Population Health Department of the UW School of Public Health. Dr. Frogner completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. Dr. Frogner received her PhD in health economics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and BA at University of California, Berkeley in Molecular and Cell Biology.

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