Ala Stanford

Ala Stanford (born December 1970) is an American pediatric surgeon. She is the founder of R.E.A.L. Concierge Medicine and the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium. She is also the first African-American, female pediatric surgeon to be trained entirely in the United States. In 2024, Stanford joined the University of Pennsylvania as a professor of practice in the Department of Biology, and as director of Community Outreach for research activities in the Penn Institute for RNA Innovation. Quotes I believe you go to the most vulnerable. I've saved more lives in a parking lot than I ever did in an operating room. Stanford says of her outreach When I say it’s no cost, it’s no cost,” she says. “Our job as health care professionals is to first do no harm. And if you're not providing access, to me that is doing harm. We need to be part of a solution to a healthier America for all Americans," Stanford said. "And if one group is hurting more particularly in the pandemic, resources need to go to that group. External links