SAGES 2009 Annual Meeting
Surgical Spring Week Presentations

April 22-24, 2009
Phoenix Convention Center
Phoenix, Arizona

∇ 2009 Gerald Marks Lecture

John Cameron, MD
Alfred Blalock Distinguished Service Professor of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

John Cameron has been a pillar of the surgical community for almost four decades. For two of those decades he served as the Chief of Surgery at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Cameron earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1958, and his medical degree from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1962. He is known for his expertise in alimentary tract diseases, specifically in pancreatic cancer. It is said that he has operated on more patients with pancreatic cancer, and done more Whipple resections than any other surgeon in the world. Dr. Cameron has served as President of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, President of the Southern Surgical Association, President of the Society of Clinical Surgery, President of the Society of Surgical Chairmen, President of the Halsted Society, and President of the American Surgical Association. He was installed as the 89th President of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) in October, 2008. His list of honors would take an entire program book of its own. Suffice it to say, he is one of the most respected surgeons in the world and we are honored to have him as the 2009 Gerald Marks Lecturer.

SAGES acknowledges our 2009 Platinum Level Donors for their support of this lecture: Allergan, Inc. · Covidien · Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · Karl Storz Endoscopy-America · Olympus-Gyrus ACMI