Frances M (rankin) Sahebzamani PhD, ARNP, FAANP
Dr Sahebzamani is an Adult nurse practitioner and joined the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute’s Employee Wellness Program and Acute and Primary Care Health Clinic in 2014. Dr. Sahebzamani developed and directs the Healthy Weight and Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Program targeting patients with obesity and comorbid metabolic dysregulation. This program is designed to implement the state-of the-art in evidence based practice for the management of obesity and metabolic dysregulation within a primary care setting. Prior to joining the Mofftt Team, Dr. Sahebzamani was an Assistant Professor in the USF Colleges of Nursing and Medicine, Division of Family Medicine. From 2006-2013, she was the director of the Advanced Nursing Practice Doctorate (DNP) Program in the College of Nursing and from 2002- 2014 co-developed and co-directed the USF Prediabetes Treatment Center within the Division of Family Medicine. Dr. Sahebzamani is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. Her practice expertise is in primary care and preventive cardiology and presents nationally on these topics. In 2013, she led the American Nurse Practitioner Foundation’s (ANPF) White Paper on the Management of Obesity and presents nationally on the topics of obesity, diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Her program of research includes the topics of obesity, metabolic dysregulation, and cardiovascular risk reduction in primary care settings.