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Biographical Sketch
Frederick Frost is a board-certified specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation and spinal cord injury medicine.
He holds a degree in English from the University of Illinois, and a medical degree from Northwestern University. After postgraduate training at Cook County Hospital and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, he was named the Julius N. Frankel Fellow in Spinal Cord Neurotrauma at the Midwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury System at Northwestern University in Chicago.
He led the Spinal Cord Trauma Program at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland for ten years, and was the Principal Investigator and Project Director of the Northeast Ohio Regional Model Spinal Cord System Grant awarded in 1995 by the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research.
Dr. Frost has published extensively in the field of Spinal Cord Injury, and authored the chapter on Spinal Cord Injury Medicine in Braddom's "Textbook of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation," which is the leading reference worldwide in the field of PM&R. He has written over 90 peer-reviewed articles, abstracts and book chapters in the field of rehabilitation.
He also serves as Editor of Lin's "Textbook of Spinal Cord Medicine" and Associate Editor for the journal Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He is a member of the governing board of the American Society of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals, and is on the officer track for the board of the American Paraplegia Society.
An Associate Professor of Medicine in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Dr. Frost has been honored with the Sidney Licht Lectureship at Ohio State University, the Prince Visiting Professorship at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, and the Charles Gibson Visiting Professorship at the University of Rochester.
Specialty Interests
falls prevention, geriatrics, rehabilitation, spinal cord injury, Stroke
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as possible about its physicians' and scientists' connections with industry.
As of 3/25/2010, Dr. Frost has reported the financial relationships with the
companies listed below. In general, patients should feel free to contact
their doctor about any of the relationships and how the relationships are
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Consulting and/or Speaking. Dr. Frost receives fees of $5,000 or more per year as a paid consultant, speaker or member of an advirsory committee for the following companies:
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