Speaker bio page for Richard B. Ford

Bio

A graduate of The Ohio State University, Dr. Ford practiced small animal and equine medicine prior to completing the internal medicine residency at Michigan State University. Subsequently, he taught internal medicine at Purdue University for 4 years after which he joined the medicine faculty at North Carolina State University. Dr. Ford was the Lead Editor of the 2017 AAHA Canine Vaccination Guidelines and has served as a co-author on the AAFP Feline Vaccination Guidelines. He currently coordinates the rabies awareness initiative in the US and the rabiesaware.org website, a resource (US) for veterinarians on State laws and regulations governing rabies and rabies vaccination. Outside of veterinary medicine, Dr. Ford spent 28 years with the US Air Force as a Biomedical Scientist. He retired from the USAF Reserve as a Brigadier General, where he was assigned to the Office of the Air Force Surgeon General at the Pentagon.