Dr. Stanley Frencher of the department of urology at the UCLA School of Medicine has won the Herbert W. Nickens Faculty Fellowship from the American Association of Medical Colleges.
The award recognizes an outstanding junior faculty member who has demonstrated leadership in the United States in addressing inequities in medical education and health care; demonstrated efforts in addressing educational, societal, and health care needs racial and ethnic minorities; and is committed to a career in academic medicine.
Frencher has dedicated his career to understanding health disparities affecting minority communities – particularly prostate cancer screening patterns – and finding ways to best address these concerns through community-based partnerships.
Frencher graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree in biology/sociology, earned a medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and, as a Macy's Scholar during medical school, earned a master's degree in public health from Columbia University. He completed his residency at Yale before being recruited to UCLA as an assistant professor-in-residence; medical director of surgical outcomes and quality at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital and lead physician of urology at Martin Luther King Jr. Outpatient Center.
