Richard Frayne

Richard Frayne's research training philosophy expects all of his students and fellows to further their personal development in four key areas: 1) fundamental knowledge, research 2) skills and 3) outputs, as well as 4) academic leadership. These expectations provide the foundation for and serve to underwrite the future success of his trainees. A commitment to EDI is central to his research program and he takes active steps to ensure that I continue to lead a diverse group that values contributions from all members. In addition, he strongly encourages his trainee to become leaders in their field and advocates very strongly for their participation in Open Science and continues promotion of trainee-led workshops and challenges.

Over more than twenty years, his over 100 trainees have been very successful in their subsequent careers or research training (60 undergraduate students and medical students, 22 MSc, 15 PhD and 18 post-doctoral fellows). Nine trainees have gone on to become university professors (including one who served as a department head, another as a vice chair, and two as Canada Research Chairs), many have undertaken leadership roles in companies and a few have followed an entrepreneurship opportunity.

The now completed NSERC CREATE I3T Program (2012-8), which Frayne led, built upon on his approach and prepared Calgary students for this diversity of opportunities. Many key program elements continue in the Medical Imaging Graduate Specialization. Frayne also helped shape the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program including obtaining direct government support (2009), serving as the chair of its curriculum committee (2004-7), and was one of its inaugural Associate Directors (2010-6). He was also a member of the Medical Science Graduate Executive Committee (2012-7) and the Hotchkiss Brain Institute Education Committee (2012-7).