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SPEAKERS  

Amrita Ahluwalia, PhD

Andrew Arai, MD

Nigel Benjamin, MD, PhD

Kenneth Bloch, MD

H. Franklin Bunn, MD

Anthony Butler, MD

Richard O. Cannon, III, MD

Michael Doyle, PhD

Martin Feelisch, PhD

Erick Feigl, MD

Peter C. Ford, PhD

Bruce Freeman, PhD

Stan Hazen, MD, PhD

Susana Herold, PhD

Neil Hogg, PhD

Christian Hunter, MD, PhD

Frank Bo Jensen, D.Sc.

Gregory Kato, MD

Malte Kelm, MD, PhD

Daniel B. Kim-Shapiro, PhD

Jack R. Lancaster Jr, PhD

David J. Lefer, PhD

Jon O. Lundberg, MD, PhD

Grant Mauk, PhD, MD

Hans Nohl, PhD

Edward Oldfield, MD

Rakesh P. Patel, PhD

Ryszard Pluta, MD

C.S. Raman, PhD

Joseph Rifkind, PhD

Alan Schechter, MD

Sruti Shiva, PhD

Margaret M. Tarpey, MD

Eddie Weitzberg, MD, PhD

David Wink, PhD

Jay L. Zweier, MD, PhD

Peter C. Ford, PhD
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA

Speaker Topic
Transformations of NOx when Coordinated to Heme Models.  Nitrite Catalysis of Reductive Nitrosylation Mechanisms

A native Californian, Dr. Ford completed his undergraduate work at Caltech (B.S. with Honors, 1962), followed by graduate study of organic oxidations at Yale University (Ph.D., 1966). He spent the following year as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. In 1967 he joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara, as an assistant professor of inorganic chemistry. He was promoted to associate professor in 1972 and to professor in 1977. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he is also president of the InterAmerican Photochemical Society for the 2004-2006 term.

Dr. Ford’s research is concerned with understanding thermal and photochemical reaction mechanisms of organometallic and coordination compounds. His current interests include the bioinorganic chemistry of the nitrogen oxides, the catalytic activation of CO and other small molecules, and the photochemistry and photophysics of metal based compounds.