Prof. Dr. Mark I. Van Berge Henegouwen is the chair of the Dutch Upper GI Cancer Audit and the chair of the Dutch Society of Foregut Surgeons of the Netherlands. He was appointed professor of Surgery and Upper GI Surgery in 2017 at the University of Amsterdam at the Amsterdam University Medical Centers. He was born and raised in the Netherlands and received his MD and PhD at the University of Amsterdam. He performed his fellowship in gastrointestinal, upper GI, and minimally invasive surgery at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam where he started as a senior consultant in 2006. His clinical practice is dedicated to patients with malignancies of the esophagus and stomach. Mark van Berge Henegouwen introduced minimally invasive surgery for esophageal and gastric cancer at his center in 2009 and now around 90 percent of patients are treated thoracic laparoscopically or robotically. In addition, he is a Principal Investigator in upper GI cancer Surgery and his main research activities are focused on the improvement of outcomes in upper GI cancer surgery, outcomes and centralization in the Dutch Upper GI Cancer Audit, improvement of (minimally invasive) techniques, neoadjuvant treatment regimens in esophageal and gastric cancer, imaging techniques and quality of life in upper GI cancer surgery.