JOHN “DREW” RIDGE was elected president of the medical staff at Fox Chase Cancer Center – Temple Health. Ridge serves as chief of Head and Neck Surgery and Louis Della Penna Family Chair in Head and Neck Oncology.
In this role, Ridge will work with Richard Fisher, president and CEO, and hospital administration to improve physician credentialing and privileging processes, and select physician representatives to committees that oversee patient safety and quality control.
Ridge has been co-chair of the NCI Head and Neck Steering Committee, as well as president of the American Head and Neck Society and of the American Radium Society. He has held leadership positions in the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group and NRG cooperative groups.
