1973 Kevin Fox

Kevin graduated from Upper Perkiomen High School in 1973, having participated in football, basketball, and track and field for four years. In 1972, he was named to the All Bux-Mont First Team on both offense and defense as a tight end and linebacker, and played in the Montgomery County All-Star Game. In 1973, he was named Most Valuable Player on the basketball team and won the gold medal in the Class B discus competition at the State Track and Field Championships. He is also a charter member of the UPHS Academic Hall of Fame.

He attended Princeton University, where he participated in football for four years as an offensive lineman. In his senior year, 1976, he was named to the Academic All-American Football First Team and received one of eleven Scholar-Athlete Awards from the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame. He graduated from Princeton in 1977 magna cum laude, with membership in both Phi Beta Kappa and the Sigma Xi honorary scientific society.

He then went on to medical school at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, graduating in 1981 with honors and membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. He served as a medical resident at the Johns Hopkins Hospital until 1984, when he received the Daniel Baker Award as the outstanding medical resident at that hospital. He then completed a fellowship in Hematology and Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1987.

Kevin joined the medical faculty at Penn in 1987, where he remained until his retirement in 2023. He served as a medical oncologist with a specialty in the treatment of breast cancer, was the first Medical Director of Penn’s Rena Rowan Breast Center from its founding in 2000 until 2019, and was the Medical Director of Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center at Radnor from 2020 to 2023. In 2002, he received the I.S. Ravdin Master Clinician Award - the highest honor given to a medical practitioner at Penn. He is a charter member of Penn’s Academy of Master Clinicians and was ranked by Forbes magazine as one of the top medical oncologists for the treatment of breast cancer in the United States. The Kevin Reitnauer Fox, M.D. Professorship of Medicine was created in his honor upon his retirement.