Richard C Frank, MD
Oncology
Hematology
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Richard C. Frank, MD, is a hematologist/oncologist and director of cancer research at the Whittingham Cancer Center at Norwalk Hospital. He also serves as medical director of the Mid-Fairfield Hospice in Wilton, Conn. He is the author of the book, "Fighting Cancer with Knowledge and Hope: A Guide for Patients", Families and Health Care Providers, which won First Place in 2010 at the American Medical Writer’s Association annual book competition.
He has consistently been selected as a "Top Doctor" by Connecticut Magazine and in the NY Metro Area by Castle Connolly.
Before joining Norwalk Hospital in 2000, Frank was an attending physician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in the division of hematologic oncology and was the recipient of a National Institutes of Health Physician-Scientist Grant for research studying the genetic basis of leukemia. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine, from which he received an MD with Distinction in Research. He served his internal medicine residency at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York and Hematology/oncology fellowship at Sloan-Kettering.
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