Here are four things to know about Dr. Ford.
1. Born in Haiti, Dr. Ford fled the country in 1972 and settled in Brooklyn, N.Y., with his family.
2. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Princeton (N.J.) University and a medical degree from Boston-based Harvard Medical School.
3. While completing a fellowship at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Dr. Ford began focusing his research on the effects of necrotizing enterocolitis, a disease that often kills premature infants.
4. Dr. Ford will assume the role of dean at the medical school June 1. He currently serves as senior vice president and surgeon-in-chief at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and as a professor and vice chair of the department of surgery and vice dean of medical education at the Los Angeles-based Keck School of Medicine of USC.
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