Mark Block, MD

Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery Program, Memorial Healthcare System

Thoracic Surgery
Accepting New Patients
Locations

Memorial Division of Thoracic Surgery

1150 N 35th Avenue Suite 660
Hollywood, FL 33021

954-265-1125

954-985-5578

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Memorial Division of Thoracic Surgery

601 N. Flamingo Road Suite 303
Pembroke Pines, FL 33028

954-844-2320

954-844-2323

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About Me

Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery Program, Memorial Healthcare System

Dr. Mark Block has practiced general thoracic surgery since completing his residency in cardiothoracic surgery at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis in 1997. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Yale University and completed his general surgery residency at the University of Chicago. He also received fellowship training in surgical oncology at the National Cancer Institute.

Before coming to Memorial Healthcare System, Dr. Block practiced general thoracic surgery as an assistant professor of surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, and then at the Medical University of South Carolina, where he was also the director of the Thoracic Oncology Working Group.

Dr. Block holds certifications from the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Chest Physicians, and is a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the Southern Thoracic Surgical Society and the General Thoracic Surgery Club. He has published more than 25 articles in peer-reviewed journals and been an invited contributor to several authoritative textbooks on thoracic surgery.

Education

Education

Yale University School Of Medicine, 1987

Residency

Barnes-Jewish Hospital, 1997, Thoracic Surgery
National Cancer Institute, 1993, Surgical Oncology
University Of Chicago Hospitals, 1990, Surgery

Fellowships

Certifications


American Board of Thoracic Surgery-Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery

Awards, Achievements, and More

Professional Organizations

  • American College of Chest Physicians
  • American College of Surgeons, South Florida Chapter
  • Florida Medical Association
  • Southern Thoracic Surgical Association
  • Association for Academic Surgery
  • General Thoracic Surgical Club
  • American Society for Clinical Oncology
  • American Association for Cancer Research
  • Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
  • American Association of Immunologists
  • American Cancer Society
  • Society of Thoracic Surgeons
  • American College of Surgeons
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science

Presentations

  • “Surgical Options: How Far Have We Come?”, Gilda’s Club Annual Cancer Symposium, 2009
  • “Endoscopic Ultrasound for Diagnosis and Staging of the Mediastinum,” Hospitalist Grand Rounds, Memorial Regional Hospital, 2009
  • “Pleural Effusions After Cardiac Surgey,” Cardiovascular Institute Symposium, 2009

Awards

  • MUSC “Applause” Award for Patient Care
  • Alley-Sheridan Educational Scholarship, Kennedy School of Government
  • Resident Award, Best Research Paper, Society of Surgical Oncology
  • Travel Grant Recipient, Society of Surgical Oncology
  • Armand Hammer Travel Award, Society of Surgical Oncology
Dr. Block discusses the importance of lung cancer screening

Dr. Block discusses the importance of lung cancer screening

Dr. Mark Block discusses why lung cancer screening is important.
Monarch Bronchoscope Acquisition

Monarch Bronchoscope Acquisition

With 100% funding from Memorial Foundation, the Monarch™ Platform enables earlier and more-accurate diagnosis of small nodules in the lung.
Tara's Lung Cancer Story

Tara's Lung Cancer Story

See how Mark Block, MD, Chief, Thoracic Surgery, identified cancer in Tara’s lung that others had diagnosed as histoplasmosis, a fungus with no need for follow-up, and how his diagnosis and her treatment at Memorial Cancer Institute, a Florida Cancer Center of Excellence, helped her to survive.
A Center of Excellence – Lung Cancer Treatment at Memorial Cancer Institute

A Center of Excellence – Lung Cancer Treatment at Memorial Cancer Institute

Memorial Cancer Institute has the expertise, experience and technology to help patients become stronger than lung cancer. Luis Raez, MD, chief, Hematology and Oncology, and medical director, Memorial Cancer Institute, and Mark Block, MD, chief, Thoracic Surgery, explain how our multidisciplinary approach from highly trained lung cancer specialists provides individualized care plans for each patient utilizing the latest lung cancer treatments.