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Dr. James T. Frakes is Clinical Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford and is in private practice at Rockford Gastroenterology Associates, Ltd.  He is an expert in the fields of therapeutic pancreaticobiliary endoscopy (ERCP), practice management and endoscopic ambulatory surgery centers.

Accomplished in teaching and clinical research, Dr. Frakes has authored over 100 publications in distinguished scientific journals, has edited four books and has written 13 book chapters dealing with gastrointestinal endoscopy.  He has presented approximately 300 invited lectures at national and international gastroenterology meetings and has directed 30 national or international courses.  A leader in teaching, medical education, clinical practice and organized medicine, Dr. Frakes has received the Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award, the Faculty Distinguished Service Award and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford.  In 2007 he received two major awards from organized gastroenterology; he was recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) for long-term contributions to the field of gastrointestinal endoscopy and to the ASGE and was designated a Master of the American College of Gastroenterology (MACG) for stature and achievement in clinical gastroenterology and teaching, and contributions to the ACG.  He has been selected by physician colleagues for inclusion in the book The Best Doctors in America yearly since 1996.

Dr. Frakes is a past president of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE).  He has also served on numerous ASGE committees and several committees of the AGA and ACG and the World Gastroenterology Organization (WGO/OMGE).  He has been designated a Fellow of the ASGE, AGA and the American College of Physicians, as well as a Master of the ACG.  Outside of medicine, he serves on the University of Illinois Foundation and the Athletic Board, and is a past member of the board of directors of the University of Illinois Alumni Association.

Dr. Frakes earned his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine.  He completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Missouri Medical Center, Columbia, Missouri, and his fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He currently resides in Rockford, Illinois with his wife; they have two grown children.