Patricia A. Ford, MD (born September 27, 1955) is an American physician, oncologist, hematologist and Director for the Center of Bloodless Medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. She is widely considered the pioneer for bloodless surgery and medicine. In 1995, she performed the first bloodless stem cell transplant. To this date the bloodless stem cell transplant has been performed thousands of times worldwide. Ford has performed the procedure herself over 700 times and teaches this technique to doctors all over the world.