Fox Chase Cancer Center Welcomes Dr. Michelle Pedersen

Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Michelle Pedersen, DO, as a hospitalist and Assistant Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine within the Department of Medicine.

The hospitalists at Fox Chase help establish a bridge between highly specialized cancer care and general medicine. Their goal is to provide the highest quality medical care to patients receiving cancer care at Fox Chase.

Pedersen is joining Fox Chase following the completion of a Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at Fox Chase and Temple University Hospital. In the three years prior to that, she was a hospitalist in the Inpatient Oncology Unit at Reading Hospital in West Reading, Pennsylvania. 

Pedersen earned her undergraduate degree in biology from Messiah University in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. She earned her medical degree from the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine in Blacksburg, Virginia. Pedersen initially trained in family medicine at the Lehigh Valley Health Network and then completed an internal medicine residency at Garden City Hospital in Michigan.

As part of her fellowship at Fox Chase, Pedersen worked on a quality improvement project with the goal of improving naloxone prescriptions for patients in outpatient supportive oncology and palliative care clinics. She also took part in a practice improvement project at Lehigh Valley Health Network aimed at improving the percentage of mammograms in outpatient offices. Her professional interests include social determinants of health, hematology and oncology, palliative care, and hospital medicine.

Over the course of her career, Pedersen was an author on multiple peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Nanomedicine and The American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism and has lectured on a variety of topics at both Fox Chase and Garden City Hospital. 

She is a member of the American College of Physicians, the American Osteopathic Association, the Pennsylvania Medical Society, and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

Pedersen will begin her tenure at Fox Chase on July 22.