Harvard Medical School (MD) Henri Ronald Ford[1] is a Haitian-American[2] pediatric surgeon.

He previously served as chief of surgery at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Vice Dean for Medical Education at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.

When Henri was 13 years old,[4] he fled with his family from the government of Papa Doc Duvalier,[3] settling among the Haitian community in Brooklyn, New York.

He also completed a research fellowship in immunology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine's Department of Surgery.

[7] In 2009, Ford received a Master of Health Administration degree from the School of Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California.

In 2005 he became vice president and chief of surgery at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) and joined the faculty of the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

After operating on the boy, Ford remained aboard the Carl Vinson treating other pediatric patients.

[18] In one case, he removed a piece of concrete from a girl's skull with the help of Jerry Berman, a U.S. Navy doctor, and Sanjay Gupta, a neurosurgeon and CNN medical correspondent.