Dr. Henri Ford accorded
honorary fellowship
in RCSEng
Henri R. Ford, MD, MHA, FACS, FAAP, vice-president and surgeon-in-chief, Children’s
Hospital Los Angeles; professor of surgery
and vice-dean for medical education, Keck
School of Medicine, University of Southern
California; and member of the American
College of Surgeons Board of Regents,
was accorded Honorary Fellowship in
the Royal College of Surgeons of England
(RCSEng) on March 7 in London, U.K.
A world-renowned Haitian-American
surgeon, Dr. Ford played a prominent
role in organizing and leading medical
teams in response to the catastrophic
2010 earthquake in Haiti. Born in Haiti,
Dr. Ford regularly returns to his native country to teach, lead operating teams, and assist in
developing surgical systems, which the island nation historically has lacked. His accomplishments
there are myriad. For example, in May 2015, Dr. Ford led a team of health care professionals that
made history by completing the first separation of conjoined twins in Haiti. (Read more about
the operation at
www.cbsnews.com/news/more-than-just-a-surgery-conjoined-twins-separated-in-haiti/
or at
bulletin.facs.org/2015/08/dr-henri-ford-performs-first-separation-of-conjoined-twins-in-haiti/.)
Dr. Ford and his family fled Haiti’s oppressive regime and came to the U.S. when he was 13
years old. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, and trained
in general surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY. He completed his pediatric
surgical training at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, PA. Prior to joining Children’s Hospital Los
Angeles in 2005, Dr. Ford was professor and chief, division of pediatric surgery, and surgeon-in-chief, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Su-Anna Boddy, MS, FRCS, council member for the RCSEng, introduced
Dr. Ford at the ceremony and spoke of his accomplishments, and Clare Marx,
CBE, DL, PRCS, RCSEng president, formally awarded him the honor. ♦
Personal and professional well-being of
surgical residents in New England
Peter S. Yooa, MD, FACS; John J. Tacketta, MD, MHS; Mark W. Maxfielda, MD, MHS; and colleagues found
that surgical residents attend to their own preventive health maintenance, finances, sleep, and
stress reduction with variable success. Residency programs should make modest programmatic
accommodations to allow trainees to tend to various aspects of their personal well-being.
This article and all other JACS content is available at
www.journalacs.org. ♦
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