James M. Ford, MD FASCO
Jim Ford is a medical oncologist and geneticist at Stanford, devoted to studying the genetic basis of GI and breast cancer development, treatment and prevention in families and populations. Dr. Ford received his MD from Yale Medical School in 1989 and trained in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology at Stanford, where he is currently Professor of Medicine (Oncology), Pediatrics (Medical Genetics) and Genetics, and Founding Director of the Stanford Cancer Genetics Clinic and the Cancer Genomics Program. Dr. Ford’s clinical interests include the diagnosis and treatment of patients with a hereditary predisposition to cancer, and his laboratory program focuses on targeting DNA repair for treatment and prevention of cancer.