 My name is Jennifer Sullivan and I am a thoracic surgeon with Hackensack Meridian Health and I am primarily located at Ocean Medical Center and Southern Ocean Medical. I recently joined the Hackensack Meridian Health System because there's a tremendous energy and commitment to really improving patient care in the community by recruiting the best physicians, acquiring the best equipment for the operating room so that patients don't have to travel far to get the best care that they deserve and I just think it's a tremendous opportunity to be with a system that really devotes most of its attention to what's best for the patient. My primary focus is on lung cancer and esophageal cancer. Lung cancer is the leading cause of death in the United States. It's estimated that 155,000 people will die this year of lung cancer. That's more than breast, prostate and colon cancer combined. Unfortunately there's such a high mortality for lung cancer because it is a disease that symptoms don't really show up until the patient perhaps is more advanced in the cancer themselves. Luckily in the last few years we've made recent advancements with lung cancer screening and getting approval by insurance companies for high-risk patients. The goal of lung cancer screening then is they will go get a CAT scan or a CT scan of their chest and it's going to find that cancer at the earlier stage when it wouldn't necessarily call symptoms but it when it's highly the most treatable and then give offers the best chance of cure for the patient. I also focus on esophageal cancer. It is estimated that 16,000 people will be diagnosed with esophageal cancer this year. Esophageal cancer on porch is also one of those cancers that you don't really get symptoms of early on when it's its most treatable state. In taking care of the patient there's also important for the patient that maybe I couldn't cure of cancer. Because their cancer is so advanced I may not have been able to do a surgery to help cure them but there are things that I'm still able to do to help improve the quality of life that they have left such as in lung cancer I can put an airway stent in or do a procedure to keep fluid from building up on the lungs so this patient can still spend time with their family and breathe comfortably and be able to go places and have conversations or in the esophageal cancer patient that I'm able to put a stent in and now he can eat his favorite food that he's just been missing. I think that's also another important aspect of care is quality of life and making people as comfortable as possible even if you can't necessarily cure them of their disease.