Dr. Henri Ronald Ford MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
4650 W Sunset Blvd Ms#65 Los Angeles CA, 90027About
Dr. Henri Ford practices Pediatric Surgery in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Ford treats children who have an illness, injury, or disease that requires surgery. Some of the surgical problems seen by pediatric surgeons are often quite different from those commonly seen by adult or general surgeons. Dr. Forddiagnoses, treats, and manages childrens surgical needs such as abnormalities of the groin in childhood and, surgical repair of birth defects, surgical care of tumors, transplantation operations, and endoscopic procedures.
Education and Training
Harvard Medical School 1984
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Aminoguanidine renders inducible nitric oxide synthase knockout mice more susceptible to Salmonella typhimurium infection.
- A new method for estimating probability of survival in pediatric patients using revised TRISS methodology based on age-adjusted weights.
- Risk factors for splenectomy in children with blunt splenic trauma.
- Role of nitric oxide and peroxynitrite in gut barrier failure.
- Long-term follow-up of patients with necrotizing enterocolitis.
- NF-kappaB inhibition enhances peroxynitrite-induced enterocyte apoptosis.
- Invited commentary: new roles for immune-enhancing diets.
- Abdominal and pelvic trauma in children.
- Panel discussion: current issues in the prevention and management of surgical site infection--part 1.
- Cellular, biochemical, and clinical aspects of wound healing.
- Panel discussion: current issues in the prevention and management of surgical site infection--part 2.
- Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass in morbidly obese adolescents.
- Development of a novel method to predict disability after head trauma in children.
- Mechanism of intestinal-derived fungal sepsis by gliotoxin, a fungal metabolite.
- Peroxynitrite inhibits enterocyte proliferation and modulates Src kinase activity in vitro.
Treatments
- Birth Defects
- Hernia
- Umbilical Hernia
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