Medical Pioneer. A surgeon blessed with great artistic talent, he is remembered for contributing globally to the education of healthcare providers from the 1930s onward. Raised in New York City, he had early art ambitions and attended City College of New York (CCNY), while there associating himself with both the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League. Upon graduation, he established a successful commercial career, but found himself hindered by his family who considered artists to be "dissolute". Pushed to enter medical school, he earned his M.D. from New York University, the high quality of the drawings in his notebooks noted by his professors, and in 1933 completed a surgical residency at Bellevue Hospital, but quickly learned that in the Depression financial survival, much less real stability, was virtually impossible. Frank continued to paint and saw the course of his life change when he contracted for $1,500 to provide five illustrations promoting the then-new local anesthetic Novocain; when an executive misinterpreted the contract and sent him $1,500 for each picture the $7,500 windfall led him to close his surgery practice so that he could devote full time to art. In 1936 he worked with CIBA Pharmaceutical on a campaign for digitalis, in the process founding a professional relationship that survives him. In 1939 he constructed a 3-D seven foot woman for the Golden Gate Exposition, his creation's growth, sexual development, and childbirth so realistic that a member of the audience would faint about every 15 minutes. With time, the green bound "CIBA Collection of Medical Illustrations" reached 13 volumes and was translated into numerous languages as Frank depicted the first open heart procedures, organ transplants, and joint replacements. In the 1970s he relocated to South Florida but never retired, stating that if he ever did retire he would just spend his time drawing pictures, which he was doing anyway. The recipient of multiple awards and honorary degrees, in 1989 he saw the publication of "Atlas of Human Anatomy", a work he described as his 'Sistine Chapel'. He died of congestive heart failure; over the years his work has remained available with the original paintings exhibited in numerous galleries and, in many cases, converted into digital format in order to improve detail. In 2013 Quinnipiac University opened the Frank H. Netter, M.D. School of Medicine, in institution dedicated to the training of primary care physicians.