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. In
his other full-time job, Professor Frankford is one of the top amateur
cyclists in Pennsylvania in his age group. |
