Frank Cerra
Degree & Credential:
MD
Title:
Former Senior Advisor, National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education; Professor of Surgery and McKnight Presidential Leadership Chair
Organization:
University of Minnesota
Profession:
Health Care Administrator
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Dr. Cerra was a senior advisor for the National Center from 2012 to 2016 as well as a McKnight Presidential Leadership chair and former senior vice president for health sciences and dean of the medical school at the University of Minnesota. From 1996 through 2010, Dr. Cerra led the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center (AHC), a $1.2 billion enterprise that educates two-thirds of the state’s health professionals and receives nearly $400 million annually in sponsored research awards. Notable achievements during Dr. Cerra’s 14-year tenure as AHC’s leader include interdisciplinary research programs that leverage strengths in diabetes, infectious diseases, neuroscience, cancer and cardiovascular disease and the development of the Biomedical Discovery District. Dr. Cerra joined the University of Minnesota in 1981 as director of surgical critical care. An accomplished researcher as well as administrator and clinician, he holds six patents and is co-developer of the bioartificial liver, a device similar to a kidney dialysis machine. Dr. Cerra received his medical degree from Northwestern University and completed a surgical residency and critical care fellowship at State University of New York, Buffalo. Learning from his experience in surgery and critical care, and success in interprofessional research, he has long practiced, advocated for and supported the interdisciplinary approach to education and its reconnection with clinical practice.
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My Contributions
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