Background
Ford, Amasa Brooks was born on July 13, 1922 in Cleveland. Son of David Knight and Elizabeth (Brooks) Ford.
Ford, Amasa Brooks was born on July 13, 1922 in Cleveland. Son of David Knight and Elizabeth (Brooks) Ford.
Bachelor, Yale University, 1944; Doctor of Medicine cum laude, Harvard, 1950.
Intern, then assistant resident, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1952-1953;
senior assistant resident, teaching fellow, U. Hospital Cleveland, 1953-1954;
instructor in medicine, teaching fellow, Case Western Reserve School Medicine, Cleveland, 1954-1958;
from assistant professor to professor medicine, Case Western Reserve School Medicine, Cleveland, 1960-1993;
professor epidemiology and biostatistics, family medicine, Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, 1975-1993;
associate dean geriatric medicine, Case Western Reserve School Medicine, Cleveland, 1980-1995;
professor emeritus epidemiology and biostatistics, Case Western Reserve School Medicine, Cleveland, since 1993. Assistant associate physician U. Hospital Cleveland, 1954-1971. Assistant physician, medical director Benjamin Rose Hospital, Cleveland, 1960-1980.
Member review committee National Institutes of Health, th,1965-1989.
Trustee, president Cleveland Neighborhood Health Services, 1972-1979, Eliza Bryant Center, Cleveland, since 1973. Trustee Long-Term Care Ombudsman, Cleveland, 1981-1994, Fairhill Center for Aging, Cleveland, 1995. Second lieutenant United States Army, 1943-1946.
Fellow American Public Health Association American Geriatrics Society (Nascher/Manning Memorial award 1989), member American Epidemiological Society.
Married Mary Elizabeth Simmons, July 7, 1951. Children: Edward Clark, Charles Keith, Donald Brooks.