Francis C. Dane
Dr. Francis C. (Frank) Dane is a social psychologist (PhD, University of Kansas, 1979) whose research encompasses mindfulness, mathematical models of medical outcomes, and environmental determinants of learning through simulation. One specific focus of his research is the concept of psychological fidelity, the extent to which an individual perceives a simulation experience to be analogous to actual experience. He is professor and chair of Arts & Sciences at Jefferson College of Health Sciences in Roanoke, Virginia, and holds secondary faculty appointments at Mercer University School of Medicine (Macon, Georgia) and Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine (Roanoke, Virginia).
Dane serves on the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Carilion Clinic, has an appointment at the Center for Healthcare Simulation Research, is a member of the Board of Directors of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Mindfulness Institute of the Roanoke Valley. In addition to charter memberships in the Association for Psychological Science and the Virginia State Simulation Alliance, he is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Conference of Academic Deans, the American Statistical Association, and the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, and is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. He also serves on the editorial boards of Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy and Critical Care.