Kathleen Ruddy

Dr. Ruddy is an internationally recognized breast cancer expert and the founder and president of Breast Health and Healing, her own private practice in New Jersey. She also founded the Breast Health and Healing Foundation and is the creator of the ongoing Pink Virus Project.

Dr. Ruddy’s commitment to helping women with breast cancer began early in her medical career, when her own mother was diagnosed with the disease. After completing her surgical residency as Chief Resident in 1994, Dr. Ruddy was chosen as the first Fellow on the Breast Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The following year, Cancer Treatment Centers of America recruited her to establish the Breast Service at the Clara Maass Medical Center, where she has since cared for more than 6,000 patients while conducting research and initiating projects that focus on how best to deal with the growing epidemic of breast cancer — by trying to understand its causes, rather than focusing exclusively on its cures, with the goal of preventing the disease.