Jason Ford is the Chair, Department of Pathology at Sidra Medicine, and Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar. The Sidra Department of Pathology is the only pediatric pathology laboratory in the Gulf region which has been accredited by the College of American Pathologists. It includes five divisions: anatomical pathology, clinical biochemistry, hematopathology and immunopathology, microbiology, and pathology genetics. Sidra Pathology provides expert pediatric diagnostic laboratory services, with special expertise in pediatric malignancy, inherited red blood cell disorders, pediatric transfusion medicine, inherited immune disease, metabolic and biochemical disorders of infancy and childhood, molecular diagnosis of bacterial and viral infections, and the laboratory diagnosis of genetic disease.

Prior to joining Sidra in 2014, Dr. Ford was Division Chief of Hematopathology at the Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. He was Sidra’s inaugural Division Chief of Hematopathology, and in 2020 was named Chair of Pathology.