Fox Chase Cancer Center has hired Hayley Walker to the Department of Medicine as a hospitalist.
Walker completed her residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School, and her undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was recognized as a Dean’s Scholar.
During her residency, Walker published research on emotions and attitudes toward endocrine therapy in young women with breast cancer.
Shearwood McClelland III’s grandfather was a ditchdigger who dreamed that his six Black daughters would become doctors. McClelland’s mother did not disappoint—she became the first Black woman board-certified in maternal fetal medicine in the history of the United States. Now, McClelland is the chief medical officer of Cancer Health Equity at the University of Oklahoma...
As oncology enters a new era of precision medicine, the Food and Drug Administration’s evolving biomarker strategy aims to ensure that life-saving therapies are tailored to individual patient needs, fostering safer and more effective treatments. Historically, therapies were approved with broad indications based on overall efficacy, even when outcomes for biomarker-positive and -negative patients were...
