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 graduated in 1984 from Yale University where he later received his M.D. degree from the School of Medicine in 1989.  He was an internal medicine resident and oncology fellow at Stanford, and joined the faculty in 1998.  He is currently Professor of Medicine (Oncology), Pediatrics and Genetics, the founding Director of the Stanford Cancer Genetics Clinic and the Cancer Genomics Program at the Stanford Medicine and a founding advisor for the Stanford Master’s Program in Genetic Counseling.  He is a current and former editor of numerous scientific journals, including Cancer Research, DNA Repair, and PLoS Genetics, and he is the founding Editor-in-Chief of JCO Precision Oncology, and a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.