Frank A. Treiber
Vice President for Research Development

Dr. Treiber is regents professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, vice chair of Basic Science in Pediatrics, and vice president for Research Development at the Medical College of Georgia. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. His postgraduate training included a clinical post doctoral fellowship at the University of Georgia and a residency in Psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina. His first academic appointment was in 1984 at the Medical College of Georgia in the Department of Psychiatry, and he later received a joint appointment in Pediatrics. Dr. Treiber became the director of the Georgia Prevention Institute in 1999, and held that position until accepting the position of vice president for Research in 2005.

As vice president for Research Development, Dr. Treiber's primary responsibility is to enable interdisciplinary research within MCG's five schools as well as with our colleagues across the state and nation. Bringing scientists with different skill sets and approaches together will escalate research activity on our campus to an unprecedented level and increase this university's contribution to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of human disease.

Dr. Treiber is an internationally recognized health promotion disease prevention researcher with expertise in the genetic and environmental contributions to the development of subclinical cardiovascular diseases beginning in childhood. He has served as the principal investigator for numerous NIH sponsored research grants totaling over 21 million dollars to date. He is currently the principal investigator of an NIH funded Program Project Grant and two other investigator-initiated NIH grants. Dr. Treiber is the author of over 135 articles in multiple peer-reviewed journals and has served on several editorial boards in leading journals in behavioral medicine research. He is currently associate editor of the Annals of Behavioral Medicine. He is a licensed psychologist and is a member of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Task Force on Future Directions of Behavioral Genetics Cardiovascular Research and has served as reviewer for the NIH on multiple review panels. He is a member of the Society of Pediatric Research, the American Pediatric Society, and a fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine and the American Heart Association Council for High Blood Pressure Research.

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