Ronald Ford

Dr. Ronald Ford has served as Chief Medical Officer for Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital since 2019. He joined Joe DiMaggio Children’s hospital in 2013 as the medical director for the Pediatric Hospitalist Program. In 2015, he became the founding program director for the Memorial Healthcare System’s pediatric residency program. Prior to coming to South Florida, Dr. Ford worked as an Emergency Department Pediatrician at East Tennessee Children’s Hospital in Knoxville, Tennessee, and then was a clinical practice director for pediatric hospital medicine at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. He received his medical degree from Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and completed a residency in pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. He also has a Healthcare MBA from Florida International University in Miami, Florida. Dr. Ford has two children. He enjoys scuba, riding his motorcycle, and he is a pinball enthusiast.