Jack Ruckdeschel is an American oncologist who has written 160 peer-reviewed articles. He obtained his bachelor's degree from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his medical degree from Albany Medical College. He received training at Johns Hopkins University and Beth Israel Hospital, where he was a resident. Jack was a fellow of the National Cancer Institute and became a faculty member of the second alma mater a decade later. In 1991, he became the Director and CEO of Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, where he worked with Terrance Albrecht. Ten years later held the same position at the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, Michigan. In 2009, he did the same thing at the Nevada Cancer Institute and three years later became Medical Director at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City. During the same years, he was the chairman of both the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group and the executive officer of the Lung Cancer Study Group.