John William Ragsdale III

I have worked at Duke Family Medicine since moving to the area in 2008, initially serving as Medical Director and later as Chief of Family Medicine and Vice Chair of Clinical Services since 2016.   I have gained a great deal of personal satisfaction from being involved in patient care, particularly as my administrative roles have expanded. I continue to follow a panel of patients that I have been caring for for many years, along with a longstanding passion for gynecological procedural work, which I have maintained since completing my residency.

Since 2017, I have also collaborated with the Duke Cancer Center to improve care for cancer survivors, with a focus on patients with genitourinary cancers. That work has continued to expand to cover a broader array of cancer survivors and now occupies a larger piece of my clinical work.  My interest lies in creating networks and systems that can better respond to and manage the complex and long-term needs of the growing population of cancer survivors.