Fox Chase Cancer Center News

PHILADELPHIA (July 22, 2024)—Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Michelle Pedersen, DO, as a hospitalist and Assistant Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine within the Department of Medicine.

PHILADELPHIA (July 19, 2024) — Richard Bleicher, MD, FACS, Director of the Breast Oncology Fellowship program and Clinical Director of the Breast Service Line at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been named the 2023-2024 University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Breast Surgical Oncology Fellowship’s Annual Distinguished Commencement Visiting Professor. Bleicher was unanimously elected as this year’s distinguished professor by the MD Anderson fellows.

PHILADELPHIA (July 18, 2024) — Yu “Sunny” Liu, PhD, an Assistant Professor in the Nuclear Dynamics and Cancer Research Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has received a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health to study how misfolded human genome can cause disease.

PHILADELPHIA (July 18, 2024) — Teh Lin, PhD, DABR, FAAPM, an Associate Professor in Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Department of Radiation Oncology, has been named a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM).

PHILADELPHIA (July 17, 2024) — Lauren Farnon, MSHS, disease site research manager for the Thoracic Cancer Program and the Head and Neck Cancer Program research teams, has been selected as a member of the ECOG-ACRIN Clinical Research Associates Core Committee.

PHILADELPHIA (July 16, 2024) — Fox Chase Cancer Center has earned national rankings of 33 in cancer and 19 in urology among the country’s top 50 hospitals in the 2024-2025 Best Hospitals rankings from U.S. News & World Report.

PHILADELPHIA (July 16, 2024) — The African American/Black community is at increased risk for morbidity and mortality from smoking-related diseases, including lung cancer, but unfortunately, when it comes to diagnosis and treatment, smoking stigma is believed to be a primary barrier to healthcare for this community.

PHILADELPHIA (July 12, 2024) — Fox Chase Cancer Center and the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University are pleased to announce the hiring of Akina Tamaki, MD, FACS, as an Associate Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at the Katz School of Medicine.