| Dr. Kathleen T. Ruddy
Breast Cancer Specialist
Biography
Dr. Ruddy began her vocation in the fight to cure breast cancer in 1974, the year her mother, age 44, was diagnosed with the disease. This personal experience left a deep impression on Dr. Ruddy, who was working asa medical secretary at the time. Over the course of the next twenty-one years Dr. Ruddy pursued an evolutionary path in the field of medicine, seeking additional education along the way in pursuit of her goal to enhancepatient care and well-being. In 1982, Dr. Ruddy received a certificate from George Washington University as one of their first Physician Assistants. She then spent the next three years working as a P.A. at GWU while completing the ten pre-med courses she needed to meet the requirements for application to medical school. In 1985, Dr. Ruddy was admitted to the New Jersey Medical School, where she graduated in 1989. During her four years in medical school Dr. Ruddy became convinced that she wanted to devote her career tothe care of women, but she also found (to her great surprise) that she had also fallen in love with the field of surgery. In 1989 she was accepted as the only woman in the General Surgery Residency Program at St. Barnabas Hospital in Livingston, New Jersey. Five years later, in 1994, she was the only entering candidate to complete the surgical residency program as Chief Resident. During the long years of surgical training, Dr. Ruddy re-discovered her true passion: breast cancer. She appealed to the Chief of the Breast Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in 1994 to create a Breast Fellowship there and, at the same time, asked to beallowed to fill that new position. She was granted her request and finished as their first Breast Fellow in 1995. Upon completion of her Fellowship Dr. Ruddy was given the opportunity to be the Founder and Medical Director of the Breast Service at Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville, New Jersey. Then in 2000, Dr. Ruddy enlarged the scope of her work by creating her own private practice, Breast Health and Healing. In 2006, Dr.Ruddy was accepted into the first class of the International Masters for Health Leadership at McGill University where, together with Dr. Salman Al Sabah, she helped to create a Breast Service in the country of Kuwait. In 2008, following completion of her Masters degree, Dr. Ruddy created the Breast Health and Healing Foundation whose mission is to “Discover the specific causes of breast cancer all over the world and to use this knowledge to prevent the disease.” Dr. Ruddy is devoted to helping women with breast cancer find a cure for their disease, but she has also come to a new vision, one based on eradication of breast cancer by discovery of its causes. Dr. Ruddy continues to care for patients in her offices in Belleville and Bernardsville, New Jersey while working tirelessly to grow the Breast Health and Healing Foundation team.
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