David W. Ford, MD, FACS
Trust an expert With 25+ years of experience
Dr. David W. Ford has the education, advanced training, and experience you should look for when considering the treatment of a potentially life-altering illness or injury.
Dr. Ford graduated from Hendrix College in Conway, AR with distinction in Biology and then completed his medical degree from the University of Tennessee Medical Center in 1992. He completed his General Surgery Residency at the Medical University of South Carolina. He is Board Certified in Surgery, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a member of the Southeastern Surgical Congress.
Areas of Expertise
Colectomy
Incisional Hernia Repair
Umbilical Hernia Repair
Cholecystectomy
Surgical robotics for minimally invasive surgery
As a Board-Certified General Surgeon, Dr. David W. Ford operates with a minimally invasive robotic surgical system for a wide variety of procedures. This minimally invasive approach only requires a few small incisions that doctors use to insert surgical equipment and a camera for viewing.
Patient Cart
The patient-side cart is positioned near the patient on the operating table. It is where the instruments used during the operation move in real time in response to your surgeon’s hand movements at the surgeon console.
A camera provides a high-definition, 3D magnified view inside your body. Every hand movement your surgeon makes is translated by the da Vinci system in real time to bend and rotate the instruments with precision.
Vision Cart
The vision cart makes communication possible between the components of the system possible, and supports the 3D High Definition vision system.
Surgeon Console
The surgeon console is where I sit during the procedure, have a crystal-clear 3DHD view of your anatomy, and controls the robotic instruments. Through a few small incisions, the tiny instruments are "wristed" and move like a human hand, but with a far greater range of motion.