Frederick is Senator Bingaman's Legislative Counsel for Healthcare. He is a lawyer specializing in public health policy and has worked extensively on low-income healthcare issues for several large national associations. Before receiving his law degree, Frederick worked as a health policy advisor and as a researcher in several public health studies. He also has extensive experience in biomedical research. Frederick received his J.D. from Duke Law School, his M.P.H. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a bachelor degree in cellular biology and Spanish from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.