Dr. Ward is a Past President of the North American Musculoskeletal Tumor Society (MSTS). He completed Duke Medical School in 1978, orthopedic residency at Duke in 1989 and an orthopedic oncology fellowship at UCLA in 1991. He was on the faculty at Wake Forest University School of Medicine until 2012 and remains an Emeritus Professor. He has published approximately 100 scholarly articles. He has personally performed more than 5000 musculoskeletal tumor surgeries and has been recognized multiple times as a “Best Doctor in Orthopaedics” and as a “Best Doctor in Cancer”.