Thank you Sponsors! Accumetrics Adam Voice Alfa Wasserman Art Nahan and Charles Kellman Associates B. Braun Baxter Beretta USA-Cougar Bouley BR Surgical Burdick Conmed Defibtech Garden State Mortgage Healthlink Hitachi Med-Care Midmark National Basketball Association Palm Bay Imports PSS Marketing Quidel Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP Taxolog, Inc. Welch Allyn Ziopharm Chairman, Department of Surgery Benno C. Schmidt Chair in Clinical Oncology Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Dr. Steven Rosenberg, Chief of Surgery at the National Cancer Institute, has referred to Dr. Brennan as "...the preeminent surgical oncologist of his generation." Dr. Brennan has been Chairman of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Department of Surgery since 1985 and is recognized throughout the national and international medical communities as an outstanding surgeon, educator and administrator. He has lectured throughout the world and authored or coauthored more than 800 scientific papers and book chapters, as well as a book on soft-tissue sarcomas. Over the years, Dr. Brennan has served as Director of the American Board of Surgery, Chairman of the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer, President of the Society of Surgical Oncology and President of the American Surgical Association (the oldest and most prestigious surgical association in the nation). Currently, he is Vice President of the American College of Surgeons and is a Fellow of both the Royal College of Surgery (Ireland) and the Royal College of Surgery of Edinburgh and England. In 2000, Dr. Brennan received the American College of Surgery's highest honor, The Distinguished Service Award. In honor of Dr. Brennan, the SynCure Cancer Research Foundation and PSS (Physician Sales & Service, Inc.) will be donating a substantial portion of the tournament's proceeds as a research grant to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.