Professor of Law. Professor Frankford earned his B.A. summa cum laude at Tufts University in 1976 and his J.D. cum laude at the University of Chicago Law School in 1979. A member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Coif, he was a law clerk for Judge Irving I. Goldberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in 1979-1980, and an associate specializing in antitrust, mass tort litigation, and regulation of broadcasting and telecommunications with the Washington, D.C., firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering from 1980 to 1984. An associate professor at the University of Miami School of Law from 1984 to 1988, Professor Frankford also has been a visiting associate professor at Yeshiva University`s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and at Temple University School of Law. An expert in health law and policy, his primary research interest concerns the reconstitution of professionalism as the normative integration of professions and community. He also has focused on the interactions among health services research, health care politics and policy, and the institutions of professions and professionalism. His works include studies of hospital reimbursement, the regulation of fee-splitting, the debates concerning privatization and national health insurance, the ideology of professionalism, the role of professionalism in medical education, the role of scientism and economism in health policy, and issues of insurance coverage. He also is Camden faculty director at the Center for State Health Policy and associate editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
