Complex General Surgical Oncology Board

Dr. Egger is the associate program director of the complex general surgical oncology fellowship and associate professor at the Hiram C. Polk Jr., M.D., Department of Surgery at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, where he is also leader of the Cancer Care and Control Program at the Brown Cancer Center.

Dr. Egger received his medical degree at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta and completed a residency in general surgery at the University of Louisville Hospital, followed by a fellowship in surgical oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Currently, Dr. Egger is a doctoral degree candidate in the department of health management and systems sciences at the School of Public Health and Information Sciences at the University of Louisville.

His clinical practice includes melanoma; adrenal tumors; gastrointestinal cancers; liver, pancreas, and bile duct cancers; and sarcoma. His research interests involve clinical, translational, and healthcare delivery research focused on reducing and eliminating the impact of cancer on the health and well-being of patients, communities, and the healthcare system. His clinical research focuses on areas such as melanoma, specifically on surgical considerations for adoptive cell therapy treatments and clinical decision making for melanoma surgery, and clinical research to improve patient care in hepatobiliary, pancreatic, and other gastrointestinal cancers. He is currently participating in collaborative translational research to predict response to immunotherapy and to detect recurrence in melanoma, and on healthcare delivery research to improve cancer outcomes in rural communities, including access to screening and complex cancer care.

Dr. Egger is the current president of the Kentucky Chapter of the American College of Surgeons and a past president of the Hiram C. Polk, Jr., M.D. Surgical Society.