Joseph Frascella, PhD

Dr. Frascella currently holds the position of Chief Clinical Research Officer jointly for FSU and TMH to help strengthen the clinical and translational research partnership between both campuses.  Prior to this position, he was the Vice President of Research at the Legacy Research Institute where he directed broad biomedical and translational research programs within Legacy Health in Portland, Oregon.  He spent most of his career at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in various positions of leadership and research administration overseeing large basic, clinical, and translational research programs at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) – originally directing NIDA’s Pain and Analgesia Program, then initiating its Clinical Neuroscience Program, and later directing the Division of Clinical and Behavioral Neuroscience Research.  He also held the position of Senior Research Scientist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County working in the Office of the Vice President for Research to build collaborations for students and faculty.  Before joining the NIH, Dr. Frascella directed a neurophysiology laboratory at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and prior to this position, he held the faculty appointment of Assistant Professor at Brown University studying physiology, anatomy, and pharmacology of visual and motor systems.

His present research interests include the study of sound, music, and music therapy on neurorehabilitation, acquired brain injury, and healthy aging.