David M. Frankford, JD
JD, University of Chicago
About Professor Frankford
Leadership & Core Faculty
David M. Frankford, JD, serves as the Faculty Director at Camden of the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. He is also a professor with appointments at Rutgers Law School and the Rutgers Institute for Health. Professor Frankford’s work has 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 state rate setting, 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, issues of insurance coverage, and numerous other issues in health care financing.
Current research interests concern the reconstitution of professionalism as the normative integration of professions and community, and the comparison of secular and religious bioethics regarding such issues as the new genetics. Professor Frankford has been a long-time editor of Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, having served as book review and associate editor, the editor of “Behind the Jargon,” a Special Section, and now a member of the Board of Editors. With Sara Rosenbaum, he is the author of the second edition of Law and the American Health Care System. Prior to joining the Center, he received his juris doctorate from the University of Chicago.