Elizabeth L. Frank

Elizabeth L. Frank, PhD

Languages spoken: English

Academic Information

Departments Primary - Pathology

Board Certification

  • American Board of Clinical Chemistry (Sub: Clinical Chemistry)

Education History

Undergraduate Colorado College
 BA
Internship Penrose Hospitals
 Intern
Doctoral Training University of Colorado
 PhD
Fellowship University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
 Fellow
Fellowship University of Utah School of Medicine
 Fellow

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Doyle K, Frank E (2021). Verifying Clinically Derived Reference Intervals for Daily Excretion Rates of Fractionated Metanephrines Using Modern Indirect Reference Interval Models. American journal of clinical pathology, 156(4), 691-699.
  2. Anderson KE, Lobo R, Salazar D, Schloetter M, Spitzer G, White AL, Young RM, Bonkovsky HL, Frank EL, Mora J, Tortorelli (2021). Biochemical Diagnosis of Acute Hepatic Porphyria: Updated Expert Recommendations for Primary Care Physicians. The American journal of the medical sciences, 362(2), 113-121.
  3. Pandya V, Hunsaker JJH, La'ulu SL, Genzen JR, Frank EL, Johnson LM, Rudolf J (2021). Excessively low cholesterol and triglyceride levels in an apparently healthy patient. Clinical biochemistry, 96, 78-81.
  4. Porter SG, Coats D, Fischer PR, Ou K, Frank EL, Sreang P, Saing S, Topazian MD, Enders FT, Cabalka A (2014). Thiamine deficiency and cardiac dysfunction in Cambodian infants. The Journal of pediatrics, 164(6), 1456-61.
  5. Kushnir MM, Song B, Yang E, Frank E (2021). Development and Clinical Evaluation of a High-Throughput LC-MS/MS Assay for Vitamin B6 in Human Plasma and Serum. The journal of applied laboratory medicine, 6(3), 702-714.
  6. Clark ZD, Cutler JM, Frank E (2017). Practical LC-MS/MS Method for 5-Hydroxyindoleacetic Acid in Urine. The journal of applied laboratory medicine, 1(4), 387-399.
  7. Smy L, Kushnir MM, Frank E (2021). A high sensitivity LC-MS/MS method for measurement of 3-methoxytyramine in plasma and associations between 3-methoxytyramine, metanephrines, and dopamine. Journal of mass spectrometry and advances in the clinical lab, 21, 19-26.
  8. Kushnir MM, Nelson GJ, Frank EL, Rockwood A (2022). LC-MS/MS Method for High-Throughput Analysis of Methylmalonic Acid in Serum, Plasma, and Urine: Method for Analyzing Isomers Without Chromatographic Separation. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2546, 295-309.
  9. Nelson HA, Frank E (2022). Quantification of 5-Hydroxyindoleacetic Acid in Urine by Ultra-performance Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2546, 195-204.
  10. Pandya V, Frank E (2022). A Simple, Fast, and Reliable LC-MS/MS Method for the Measurement of Homovanillic Acid and Vanillylmandelic Acid in Urine Specimens. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2546, 175-183.
  11. Vachali PP, Kish-Trier E, Steckel S, Frank E (2025). Instrument Multiplexing: Amplified Throughput for Measurement of Vitamin B1 in Whole Blood Using Parallel Liquid Chromatography Systems Interfaced to a Single Mass Spectrometer. DOI: 10.1093/clinchem/hvaf029. Clinical chemistry, 71(6), 713-722.
  12. Thaitumu MN, Frank E (2025). Analysis of Urinary Metanephrines Using Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2891, 257-268.

Review

  1. Isbell TS, Colwell E, Frank EL, Karon BS, Luzzi V, Wyer L (2021). Professional Certification in Point-of-Care Testing. EJIFCC, 32(3), 303-310.

Case Report

  1. Bergelson I, Walker C, Frank EL, Steinberg R (2023). Felbamate Urolithiasis: A Case Report and Literature Review. BMJ case reports, 16(e253883),