Marc Franzos MD, MPH, FACC, FACP

Education

Cardiovascular Fellowship 2011-2014
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Master of Public Health 2007-2009
Concentration: Emergency and Disaster Medicine
American Military University

Internal Medicine Residency 2003-2006
National Military Medical Center

Doctor of Medicine 1999-2003
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

B.S. in Chemistry & B.A. in Philosophy 1985-1990
Certificate in Conceptional Foundations of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh

Biography

Dr. Franzos is a former Navy pilot turned physician with board certification in both Cardiovascular Disease and Internal Medicine, plus additional training in Aerospace Medicine. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University (USU) School of Medicine. Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dr. Franzos completed medical school at USU, then residency and fellowship at the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) in Bethesda, Maryland (renamed the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center). Recently retired from the Navy at the rank of Captain, Dr. Franzos served in many leadership roles, including Chief Medical Officer at the Pentagon’s multi-specialty clinic and Chief of Medicine at NNMC. He concluded his military career at the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery as the Deputy Chief Operations Officer and Director of Force Medical Readiness. Dr. Franzos transformed Military Medicine through policies that established medical readiness as a core contributor to unit effectiveness; used evidence-based data to improve medical evaluations for accession, retention, and disability; authored guidance on post-COVID-19 return to exercise and deployability; and focused on preventing exercise-related collapse. As an Associate Professor, Dr. Franzos is currently engaged in clinical care, teaching, and research, particularly interested in using artificial intelligence in cardiovascular diagnostics, leadership principles, and pre-participation examinations for competitive athletics and military service.

Representative Bibliography

Bhatia T, Franzos MA, Wood JA, Nimgaonkar VL, Deshpande SN. Gender and Procreation Among Patients with Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research 2004; 68(2-3):387-94.

You D, Franzos MA. Successful Treatment of Fulminant Clostridium difficile Infection with Fecal Bacteriotherapy. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2008; 148:632-3.

Bakken JS, Borody T, Brandt LJ, Brill JV, Demarco DC, Franzos MA, Kelly C, Khoruts A, et al.; Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Workgroup. Treating Clostridium difficle infection with fecal microbiota transplantation. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 2011; 9(12):1044-9.

Franzos MA, Franzos TL, Woolford J, McDonald WA. Alcohol Abuse or Dependence in the Military Aviator: Guidance for the Non-Flight Surgeon. Military Medicine. 2012; 177:1191-5.

O’Connor FG, Franzos MA, Nye NS, Nelson DA, Shell D, Voss JD, Anderson SA, Coleman NJ, Thompson AA, Harmon KG, Deuster PA. Summit on Exercise Collapse Associated with Sickle Cell Trait: Finding the “Way Ahead.” Curr Sports Med. 2021; 20(1):47-56.

O’Connor FG, Franzos MA. (2021). COVID-19: Return to play or strenuous activity following infection. In KB Fields and JG Grayzel (Ed), UpToDate. Updated March 16, 2021, from https://www.uptodate.com/contents/covid-19-return-to-play-or0strenuous-activity-following-infection.

Franzos MA, Wedam E, Haigney M, Pause Dependent Torsades de Pointes. In: Daoud E, Kalbfleisch SJ, editors. Color Atlas and Synopsis of Electrophysiology. McGraw Hill, 1 May 2015, IBSN 0071786260.