Rate My Professor Tom Ford

Conjoint Associate Professor Tom Ford serves in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle, within the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing. An internationally recognized Interventional Cardiologist, he specializes in angina and ischaemic heart disease. Ford graduated from the University of Dundee School of Medicine in 2007 at age 22, earning the University Medal (Captain WA Low Prize). He obtained his PhD from the University of Glasgow in 2019, receiving the prestigious Bellahouston Medal for the highest distinction among PhD, MD, and DDS theses. His qualifications include Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP, Edinburgh), Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP, Edinburgh), Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP), and Fellowship of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (FCSANZ). Following advanced cardiology training at Prince of Wales and St George Hospitals in Sydney, he completed a three-year subspecialty fellowship in complex percutaneous coronary intervention and coronary physiology at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Glasgow, returning to Australia in 2019. He holds conjoint academic appointments at the University of Newcastle and directs Central Heart.

Ford's research focuses on coronary microvascular dysfunction, ischemia and no obstructive coronary artery disease (INOCA), invasive coronary function testing, stratified medical therapy for angina, coronary vasomotion disorders (microvascular angina and vasospastic angina), rotational atherectomy, percutaneous coronary intervention, and coronary artery perforations. He has supervised Honours-level medical student research on drug-eluting stents. Key publications include the landmark CorMicA trial results, "Stratified Medical Therapy Using Invasive Coronary Function Testing in Angina" (Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2018), "Ischemia and No Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease: Prevalence and Correlates of Coronary Vasomotion Disorders" (Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, 2019), "Systemic Microvascular Dysfunction in Microvascular and Vasospastic Angina" (European Heart Journal, 2018), and "Angina: Contemporary Diagnosis and Management" (Heart, 2020). Additional works feature book chapters on radial access techniques (2022) and bioresorbable stents (2022). His contributions have garnered international awards, such as the EuroPCR Best Abstract Winner (PCR’s Got Talent) and the British Cardiac Society’s ‘Best of the Best’ Clinical Abstract in Interventional Cardiology. Ford's work has over 4,000 citations.