As a prominent hematologist-oncologist, Patricia Ford, MD was appointed to the Comprehensive Patient Blood Management (cPBM) Medical Advisory Board at Accumen in April 2023. She has since contributed to providing insight into Accumen’s Clinical Transformation Services along with the solution team to implement patient blood management programs in hospitals and health systems nationwide.

Dr. Ford is also a clinical professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia. She is a member of the medical staff at Pennsylvania Hospital in the Division of Medicine, the medical director of the Clinical Research Unit and for the Autologous Transplant Program for which she performed the world’s first and largest series of transplants without blood product support to Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Dr. Ford’s areas of interest in oncology are bone marrow transplant and the treatment of women with breast and gynecologic malignancies. She is also focused on patient blood management and alternatives to transfusion support. She has an interest in managing coagulopathies and thrombosis and benign hematology, including the diagnosis and treatment of anemia, especially iron deficiency in pregnancy.