Frank Sinatra, MD

In 1976, Dr. Frank Sinatra joined the full-time faculty at USC School of Medicine and established the first pediatric gastroenterology program at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where he served as director of the division until 1992. In 1988 he also assumed directorship of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at the Los Angeles County+U.S.C. Medical Center, a position he held until 2009. Dr. Sinatra is currently a professor of Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine at USC and is the assistant dean for Faculty Development.

Dr. Sinatra has contributed more than 100 articles, abstracts, book chapters and invited monographs to the pediatric and gastroenterology literature. His primary areas of research interest include liver disorders in infancy and childhood, gastrointestinal problems in the neonate and nutritional complications of gastrointestinal and liver disorders. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Perinatology and Pediatrics in Review and on review panels and data safety and monitoring boards for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He was a member of the American Board of Pediatrics for over 30 years and has served as a visiting professor throughout the United States, Canada and Central America.

An eight- time recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award from the students of the Keck School of Medicine, he was awarded the Master Teacher designation. Dr. Sinatra is a recipient of the Morris and Mary Press Humanism Award and the Distinguished Service Award from Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award from the Keck School of Medicine. He has been consistently listed in Best Doctors in America, America’s Top Doctors and Los Angeles Super Doctors and was elected to membership in the prestigious American Pediatric Society.