Fox Chase Cancer Center News

PHILADELPHIA (July 25, 2022)—Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Vanessa B. Wookey, MD, as an assistant professor in the Gastrointestinal Cancer Program.

Wookey earned her medical degree in 2015 from the Sanford School of Medicine at The University of South Dakota and went on to an internal medicine residency at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She earned her undergraduate degree in biology from South Dakota State University.

PHILADELPHIA (July 21, 2022)—Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Jay Simhan, MD, FACS, who will join Fox Chase and the Temple Health community this summer. In his new role at Fox Chase, Simhan will serve as professor and director of Reconstructive Urology in the Division of Urology and Urologic Oncology. He will also serve as the fellowship director for the Fox Chase Reconstructive Urology fellowship.

PHILADELPHIA (July 21, 2022)— Eighteen nurses representing multiple departments at Fox Chase Cancer Center recently attended the 47th annual Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) Congress in Anaheim, Calif. There, they had the opportunity to present research and projects they had conducted over the past year, as well as learn more about oncology nursing from colleagues from around the country.

PHILADELPHIA (July 21, 2022)—Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Steve Sterious, MD, FACS, who has joined Temple Health and the Fox Chase Division of Urology and Urologic Oncology.

PHILADELPHIA (July 20, 2022)—Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Eric M. Ghiraldi, DO, who has joined Temple Health and the Fox Chase Division of Urology and Urologic Oncology.

PHILADELPHIA (July 20, 2022)—Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Justin Friedlander, MD, who has joined Temple Health and the Fox Chase Division of Urology and Urologic Oncology.

PHILADELPHIA (July 19, 2022)—Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Joshua Cohn, MD, FPMRS, who has joined Temple Health and the Fox Chase Division of Urology and Urologic Oncology.

PHILADELPHIA (July 7, 2022)—A team of researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center have been awarded a Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Health Disparity Research Award for New Investigators.