Mark K. Ferguson Stephen B. Gruber Keith D. Lillemoe       Mary Maluccio Robert J. Mayer Susan G. Urba       Mark K. Ferguson, M.D. Dr. Ferguson will present “Surgery for Esophageal Cancer.” Dr. Ferguson is Professor of Surgery at the University of Chicago Medical Center, and provides thoracic care services at the University of Chicago Medical Center and Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital. After earning his medical degree from the University Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Dr. Ferguson completed his residency and a fellowship in thoracic surgery at the University of Chicago Medical Center. He specializes in the surgical management of diseases of the lungs and esophagus. He is experienced in all techniques of lung and esophageal resection, and is skilled in surgical methods to relieve airway obstruction and malignant pleural effusions. Dr. Ferguson has served on the boards and committees of numerous national societies and institutions including the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health. He has authored more than 80 chapters in medical textbooks, and has edited or written books on esophageal reconstructive surgery, failed anti-reflux therapy and decision-making in thoracic surgery, including a recent atlas of general thoracic surgery. Dr. Ferguson has also written more than 170 papers in medical journals, and serves as an editor or associate editor for two cardiothoracic surgery journals. Dr. Ferguson is an active member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, the American Surgical Association, the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery and the General Thoracic Surgery Club.