Experience
Experience
Fifteen years of clinical operations leadership, academic medicine, NIH-supported translational research, and peer-reviewed scientific impact across regulated healthcare environments.
Clinical Operations
Rehabilitation
Service-Line Leadership
Section Chief, Clinical Operations, Rehabilitation Services
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
2022–Present | Colorado
Director-level rehabilitation service-line leader driving access, quality, staffing, and technology-enabled care transformation within a large, highly regulated integrated health system.
Operational leadership at scale
Co-leads a 40+ FTE multidisciplinary rehabilitation service line accountable for access, quality, staffing, and performance across a complex care environment.
Technology-enabled access
Launches mobile specialty clinics, implantable-device programming workflows, and cross-site consult systems that expand rural access and create scalable models for med-tech deployment.
Regulated workflow execution
Leads cross-functional implementation of device-enabled workflows involving FDA-regulated technologies, translating technical capability into operationally usable care-delivery models.
Academic Medicine
Translational Research
& Physician Education
Full-time Faculty | Assistant Professor
Rush University Medical Center
2019–2021 | Chicago, Illinois
Led translational research and physician-facing education at a major academic medical center, translating biomedical evidence into clinically actionable insight, care-decision support, and referral-pathway change.
Evidence-to-practice translation
Conducted NIH-funded translational research on sensory-system clinical indicators, generating evidence relevant to diagnosis, care decisions, and specialty referral patterns.
Cross-specialty clinical education
Led physician-facing education across otolaryngology, internal medicine, and rehabilitation, translating complex biomedical findings into operationally useful clinical guidance.
Health-system adoption
Worked across research and clinical stakeholders to connect evidence generation with real-world adoption inside a large academic health system.
Advanced R&D
Systems Neuroscience
& Implantable-Device Research
Postdoctoral Fellow, Systems Neuroscience & Electrophysiology
UT Southwestern Medical Center & UT Dallas
2018–2019 | Texas
Research Fellow, Implant-Associated Infections
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
2014–2015 | Missouri
Built advanced R&D depth across sensory neural circuitry, electrophysiology, immune-mediated neural injury, implantable-device infection risk, microbial biofilms, and biomaterials-associated infection.
Systems neuroscience & electrophysiology
Led NIH R01-supported systems neuroscience and electrophysiology research on sensory neural circuitry, collaborating with internal medicine and physiology teams on immune-mediated neural injury and recovery.
Implantable-device infection risk
Conducted NIH-supported implantable-device R&D in an MD/PhD-led lab, studying microbial biofilms and biomaterials-associated infection on implantable devices.
Med-tech research judgment
Built research judgment directly relevant to med-tech R&D, device safety, evidence quality, infection-mitigation strategy, and regulated technology deployment.
NeuroImmunology
Sensory Systems, Inflammation
& Recovery
Neuroscience Researcher
State University of New York at Buffalo
2015–2018 | Buffalo, New York
Led NIH-supported research on immune signaling, sensory-system stress, and molecular mechanisms of inflammation and recovery in a multidisciplinary neuroscience environment.
Sensory neuroimmunology mapping
Mapped sensory neuroimmunology pathways and RNA / gene-expression changes associated with inflammation and recovery.
Molecular target identification
Integrated imaging and molecular data to identify potential therapeutic targets for sensory inflammation.
Clinician-scientist research environment
Worked as a clinician-scientist embedded in an MD/PhD-led multidisciplinary lab.
Research Impact
Peer-Reviewed
Scientific Influence
Dr. Frye’s peer-reviewed biomedical research spans neuroimmunology, implantable-device safety, neural circuitry, sensory inflammation, and translational biomedical science.
His work has been cited more than 700 times in the biomedical literature, is indexed through the National Library of Medicine, and includes publications in peer-reviewed journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuroscience, and Journal of Neuroimmunology.
This foundation supports his ability to evaluate evidence quality, engage technical teams credibly, and translate biomedical complexity into clinical, operational, and commercial strategy.