Kathleen T. Ruddy, MD

Curriculum Vitae

Current Positions

President, Breast Health and Healing, LLC, 95 Madison Avenue, Suite 409,Morristown, New Jersey 07936

Chief Executive Officer, Radius Health Exchange, Sarasota, Florida

Chief Scientific Advisor, Feds 4 Medical Freedom (501c3), Florida

Prior Positions

Founder and President, Breast Health and Healing Foundation, 501(c)3,

Belleville, New Jersey, 2006-2021

Scientific Advisory Board Member, Inflammatory Breast Cancer Foundation,

Hillcrest, Michigan, 2010-2019

Harvard School of Public Health Leadership Council Member, Cambridge,

Massachusetts, 2013-2018

Education

Bachelor of Science, 1983, George Washington University, Washington,

D.C.

Doctor of Medicine, 1989, The New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New

Jersey

Intern, General Surgery, 1989-90, St. Barnabas Medical Center,

Livingston, New Jersey

Resident, General Surgery, 1990-93, St. Barnabas Medical Center,

Livingston, New Jersey

Chief Resident, General Surgery, 1993-94 St. Barnabas Medical Center,

Livingston, New Jersey

Surgical Fellow, Breast Service, 1994-95, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York

Masters of Management, 2008, International Masters for Health Leadership,

McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Medical Licenses

New Jersey, 56452, active;

New York, 196653, inactive;

Maine, TD081115, inactive

Employment

Founder and Medical Director, Breast Service, Cancer Treatment Centers of

America, Clara Maass Medical Center, Belleville, New Jersey, 1995-2005

Founder and President, Breast Health and Healing, LLC, Morristown, New

Jersey, 2000 – present

Consultant Surgeon, Breast Service, Royale Hayat Hospital for Women,

Kuwait City, Kuwait, 2006

Founder and President, Breast Health and Healing Foundation, Morristown,

New Jersey, 2008 – present

Consultant Surgeon, Breast Health Service, Cary Medical Center, Caribou,

Maine, 2008 – 2010

Military Service

United States Army Reserve, 1990-1999

Patents and Intellectual Property 

U.S. PATENT 5, 219,353, June 15, 1993, “Surgical Endoclip”; FDA-510K

approved April, 1995

U.S. PATENT 5,354,306 October 11, 1994, “Surgical Endoclip”; FDA-510K

approved, April, 1995

Breast Health GPS, iPhone app (FREE in iTunes), allowed users to locate the

nearest mammogram screening center anywhere in the United States( using

GPS technology and government database.) It was the #1 breast cancer app in Apple’s iTunes store upon its release in 2010 and for the following 18 months.

Breast Cancer 411, iPad app (FREE in iTunes), provided current information

regarding breast cancer research. The app included the Ten Things You Need

To Know about breast cancer and links to the Breast Health & Healing

Foundation website, Dr. Ruddy’s Breast Cancer Blog and social

networking sites.

Lobby Me Pink, iPhone/Blackberry/Android (FREE), provided all contact information for every member of Congressmen in Washington, D.C. using zip

code prompts. The app also allowed users to send personal emails directly to the Chiefs of Staff and Health Policy Advisors for every Member of Congress. At the time, Lobby Me Pink was the only app that provided this information and

functionality. The app also linked to the Breast Health & Healing Foundation

website, Dr. Ruddy’s Breast Cancer Blog and her social networking sites.

Research

Mammogram Screening Project, 1995-96: Screened 1000 women in Essex

County, New Jersey using a collaborative network of primary care physicians.

The study was designed by Dr. Ruddy and was funded by Cancer Treatment Centers of America through the Clara Maass Medical Center.

Mammogram Screening Initiative, 2006 – 2010: The objective was to evaluate

the number of women over the age of forty employed at the Clara Maass

Medical Center to study the rate of mammographic screening in this unique

population of healthcare providers. Using a questionnaire and participatory

research design, Dr. Ruddy intended to discover ways to increase the number of employees screened annually. She hoped to secure funds to expand this study to include other hospitals in the St. Barnabas Healthcare System, the largest healthcare

system (and largest private employer) in New Jersey.

Mammographic Screening Initiative – Uganda, 2007 – 2009. Funded by the

World Health Organization in collaboration with WHO staff and the Ministry

of Healthy in Kampala, Uganda.

Pink Virus Project, 2009 – 2020

This was a collaborative network of physicians and scientists interested in answering the question, Does a virus cause breast cancer in women?

Specifically, the project centered on research about the human mammary tumor virus, thought to be involved with 40-75% of all human breast cancer. Researcher professors from George Washington University, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, George Mason

University and the University of New South Wales, New Zealand were involved

in this project, initiated in September 2009 at a Breast Cancer

Summit sponsored by Senator Susan Collins (Maine) and held on Capitol Hill.

Publications

The End of Breast Cancer: A Virus and the Hope for a Vaccine. Skyhorse

Publishing, 2017

The Viability of Roe: Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization,

2021