Ala Stanford

Ala Stanford is an American pediatric surgeon. She holds certifications in both adult general-surgery and pediatric surgery. She founded Philadelphia's Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium. What began as free COVID-19 testing, funded by Stanford herself, reaching nearly 400 patients each day, developed into a step towards restructuring our healthcare system to the benefit of those facing inequality in regards to receiving care. Dr. Stanford gained international recognition during the COVID-19 pandemic using the infrastructure of her pediatric surgery practice to create a grassroots organization focused on education, testing, contact tracing and vaccination in communities devoid of access to care and resources. The consortium was created during the COVID-19 pandemic to address barriers to testing in Philadelphia communities that had been disporportionatley affected by the virus. "Dr. Ala Stanford". Penn State Behrend. Retrieved October 1, 2026. 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.

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