ASSOCIATE FACULTY

David M. Frankford
( B.A. Tufts University; J.D., University of Chicago Law School)

David M. Frankford is a Professor of Law at the Rutgers University School of Law in Camden; a Professor at Rutgers = Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research in New Brunswick; the Faculty Director at Camden of Rutgers Center for State Health Policy; a Member of Rutgers Graduate Department of Public Policy and Administration in Camden; and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. He earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1979 and his B.A. in political science from Tufts University in 1975.

His primary research interest concerns the reconstitution of professionalism as the normative integration of professions and community. He has also focused on the interactions between 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 is currently studying the manner in which medical education and practice can be connected institutionally and linked to community institutions, and the manner in which assessment and maintenance of professional competence can be allocated among public and private authority, given the growth of new practice organizations and advances in continuing education. Finally, with coauthors Rand E. Rosenblatt and Sara Rosenbaum, he is working on a major revision of Law and the American Health Care System, the leading book in the field.