PHILADELPHIA (June 15, 2020) – Fox Chase Cancer Center announces the hiring of Andrea S. Porpiglia, MD, MSc, who will join the Department of Surgical Oncology in the Division of General Surgery. Porpiglia will be an assistant professor in the academic clinician track.
Porpiglia, who was a Complex Surgical Oncology Fellow at Fox Chase, is returning to the center after serving as division chief of surgical oncology in the department of surgery at
Crozer-Keystone Health System.
She received her medical degree from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis and stayed on to complete her residency in general surgery. She was a research technologist in the department of immunology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, before becoming their senior research technologist.
Porpiglia is certified by the American Board of Surgery in complex general surgical oncology and general surgery.
She is a member of the Society of Surgical Oncology, Pennsylvania Medical Society, American Society of Clinical Oncology, American College of Surgeons, and the Association of Women Surgeons.
Porpiglia serves on the Association of Women Surgeons conference planning committee, the Society of Surgical Oncology CME committee. She served as an LLC board member of the Prospect Provider Group in Pennsylvania and on the Oncology Strategic Leadership Committee.
She has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, presented at multiple annual meetings/symposiums, and has guest lectured.
Porpiglia will begin work at Fox Chase on July 1, 2020. She will see patients at Fox Chase main campus and Fox Chase East Norriton.