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Ford Named Forsyth Medical Center Distinguished Professor
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Dr. Eric W. Ford, an expert on information technology in healthcare who has written extensively on electronic healthcare records, has joined the faculty of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro as the Forsyth Medical Center Distinguished Professor. Ford, who begins his tenure this month, has a joint appointment in the Bryan School of Business and Economics and the School of Nursing.
Ford comes to Greensboro from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, where he held an endowed professorship honoring the namesake of the Jerry S. Rawls School of Business. Ford also served as the director of The Center for Health Innovation and Research at Texas Tech.
“Regardless of one’s stance on healthcare, we can all agree that it is one of the most critical issues that needs to be addressed for the economic prosperity of our country,” said Dr. Jim Weeks, dean of the Bryan School. “Dr. Ford's experience and expertise will allow UNCG to develop academic programs and conduct research to address this urgent need in our region, state and nation.”
Prior to Texas Tech, Ford worked as an associate professor in the Department of Health Systems Management in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University and held an endowed professorship in the Department of Health Policy & Administration in Pennsylvania State University’s College of Health & Human Development.
Ford earned a PhD in health services administration from the University of Birmingham – Alabama in 2000 and a master’s in public health from the University of South Carolina in Columbia in 1997. His research interests include issues of strategic management in healthcare and ways that information systems impact performance.
“We are so pleased to have someone with Dr. Ford’s qualifications to teach our graduate students and serve on doctoral dissertation committees,” said Dr. Lynne Pearcey, dean of the School of Nursing.
“His expertise will increase the knowledge of our students in health administration. Also, he has already started consulting with our research office and Dr. Debra Wallace. We anticipate great things happening here at UNCG.”
Ford will teach healthcare administration courses for the School of Nursing and the Bryan School while pursuing research opportunities that span both fields.
The Forsyth Medical Center Distinguished Professorship was created with a $333,000 gift from the Forsyth Medical Center Foundation coupled with a 50 percent match of $167,000 from the state’s Distinguished Professors Endowment Trust Fund. The Forsyth Medical Center gift was given as part of the recently completed Students First Campaign, which raised more than $115 million for the university.