PHILADELPHIA (May 2, 2023)—Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Abigail T. Berman, MD, MSCE, as an assistant professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology. Berman will focus on caring for patients with thoracic and gastrointestinal cancers.
Most recently, Berman served as a radiation oncologist at Penn Medicine and currently serves as Head of Enterprise Radiation Oncology at CVS Health. During her time as assistant professor of Radiation Oncology at Penn Medicine, she held a number of other roles, including associate director at the Penn Center for Precision Medicine and residency program director in radiation oncology.
Berman earned her undergraduate degree in chemistry from Harvard University and her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, where she also received a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology. She completed her residency in radiation oncology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
She is a member of the American Society for Radiation Oncology, the American Society for Clinical Oncology, and the American Association for Cancer Education. Over the course of her career, Berman has earned multiple honors recognizing her abilities as an academic, including the ARRO Educator of the Year Award. She has also published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and has lectured on radiation oncology nationally and internationally.
Berman began her tenure at Fox Chase on March 13.