Dr. John Frame has been in the practice of general surgery at Surgical Associates since 1984. He serves as Medical Director of the Saint Francis Breast Center and previously held the position of Chief of Surgery at Saint Francis Hospital. 

Dr. Frame is a native of St. Louis, Missouri, but completed high school in Tulsa. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Oklahoma in Norman. He attended medical school at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.

He completed his internship and residency at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center where he also served as Chief Resident.


Dr. Frame also completed a research fellowship in cardiovascular surgery at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.

As Medical Director of the Saint Francis Breast Center, Dr. Frame has helped position the facility at the leading edge of breast cancer care. His commitment to advanced technologies and a multidimensional, coordinated approach to the treatment of patients with breast cancer has benefited thousands of women who access the hospital’s facility every year. Dr. Frame served as Oklahoma State Chairman of the Cancer Liaison Program for the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer, and as Cancer Liaison Physician at Saint Francis Hospital. 
Dr. Frame is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the Western Surgical Association, Oklahoma State Medical Association, Oklahoma Surgical Society, Tulsa Surgical Society, Southwestern Surgical Congress, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, and the Society for the Study of Breast Diseases. He is also a Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in Tulsa. Dr. Frame has also assisted patients at Saint Francis through work on the Surgery Patient Care, Operating Room, Surgery Quality Assurance, Institutional Ethics, and Medical Executive Committees. Dr. Frame is currently Chairman of the Board of Care Med Alliance, Inc., an MSO network partnership between Saint Francis Health System and its physician members.
 
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