A Caribbean-born pediatric surgeon has been named the dean of the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami. Dr. Henri R. Ford, was born in the Caribbean nation of Haiti and spent his early childhood in Port-Au-Prince, the country’s capital. He will join the University of Miami from June 1st.
Dr. Ford is currently the senior vice president and chief of surgery at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), vice dean of medical education, and professor and vice chair for clinical affairs in the Department of Surgery at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. He was professor and chief of the Division of Pediatric Surgery and surgeon-in-chief at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine prior to joining CHLA in January 2005.
Dr. Ford is also a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Surgeons (England), the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Arnold P. Gold Humanism in Medicine Award from the Association of American Medical College and is a fellow of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Surgeons.
His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through the Injury Free Coalition for Kids, the National Trauma Registry for Children and the American College of Surgeons, among others. Dr. Ford is the author of more than 300 publications, book chapters, invited manuscripts, abstracts, and presentations.
