Frances Broyles

Dr. Frances "Fran" Broyles is a board-certified Endocrinologist with over 30 years of clinical leadership and patient care experience in Seattle. She currently serves as Co-Medical Director and Principal Investigator at Rainier Clinical Research Center, where she leads clinical trials across a broad spectrum of endocrine and metabolic conditions, including diabetes, obesity, lipid disorders, osteoporosis, and women's health.

Dr. Broyles earned her medical degree from the University of Florida and completed her Internal Medicine residency in Dallas, where she served as Chief Medical Resident. She then completed a fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of Washington in Seattle. For more than three decades, she has maintained a thriving clinical practice at Swedish Medical Center and has been repeatedly recognized as one of Seattle’s Top Doctors in Endocrinology.

Throughout her career, Dr. Broyles has held numerous system-wide leadership roles, including Medical Director of the Neuroendocrinology and Pituitary Program at the Swedish Neuroscience Institute and Medical Director of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition for the Swedish Health System. She also served as Clinical Lead for the inpatient glycemic management program, the outpatient Diabetes Pathway, and the Healthy Weight Initiative for Swedish and Providence, and she played an integral role in developing the Osteoporosis Program at Minor and James and Swedish.

Her clinical and research interests span diabetes, obesity, lipid disorders, osteoporosis, thyroid disease, women’s hormonal health, pituitary conditions, and adrenal disorders. She is passionate about education and continues to serve as a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington. She has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications and presented at clinical and educational conferences throughout her career.

Outside of medicine, Dr. Broyles enjoys reading fiction, hiking, yoga, and spending time with her husband, two daughters, and two grandchildren, often getting delightfully lost in play.