Vice President and Surgeon-in-Chief,
Medical Director, Burtie Green Bettingen Surgery Center
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
Professor of Surgery and Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Division of Pediatric Surgery
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
Specialty: Pediatric Surgery
Clinical Interests:
- Necrotizing enterocolitis
- Trauma
Research Interests:
- Necrotizing Enterocolitis
- Gut Barrier Dysfunction
Board Certification(s):
General Surgery - American Board of Surgery, 1993
Pediatric Surgery - American Board of Surgery, 1996
Education & Training:
| Medical School: | Harvard Medical School [MA], MD, 1980-84 | |
| Residency: | New York Hospital, Cornell Medical College [NY], General Surgery, 1985-87 | |
| Residency: | New York Hospital, Cornell Medical College [NY], General Surgery, 1989-91 | |
| Fellowship: | University of Pittsburgh [PA], Surgery, 1987-89 | |
| Fellowship: | Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh [PA], Pediatric Surgery, 1991-93 |
Professional Membership(s):
- Association for Academic Surgery
- Society of Black Academic Surgeons
- Surgical Infection Society
- Fellow, American College of Surgeons
- Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics
- Shock Society
- Society of University Surgeons
- American Pediatric Surgical Association
- Society of Critical Care Medicine
- American Trauma Society
- British Association of Pediatric Surgeons
- Fellow, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
- Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma
- American Physiological Society
- The Claude H. Organ Jr. Surgical Society
- Central Surgical Association
- American Surgical Association
- Surgical Biology Club
- Los Angeles Surgical Society
- Pediatric Surgery Board of the American Board of Surgery
- Executive Committee, American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma
- American College of Surgeons Board of Governors
Contact and Additional Language(s) Information:
| Address: | Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Division of Pediatric Surgery 4650 Sunset Blvd., MS #100 Los Angeles, CA 90027 |
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| Email: | hford@chla.usc.edu |
Language(s) spoken, in addition to English: Spanish, French