Henri Ford

Henri Ronald Ford is a Haitian-American pediatric surgeon and medical school dean. Born in Haiti, he fled with his family from the government of Papa Doc Duvalier at age 13 and settled in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Princeton University in 1980 and received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1984, then trained in surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College. He was surgeon-in-chief at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, chief of surgery at Children's Hospital Los Angeles from 2005, and in 2018 became dean of the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami. His research addressed the pathogenesis of necrotizing enterocolitis. After the 2010 Haiti earthquake he went to Haiti and treated victims, including aboard the USS Carl Vinson, and returned eight times within a year.