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Chicago Mercantile Exchange building. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) (often called the Chicago Merc, or the Merc) is an American financial and commodity derivative exchange based in Chicago and located at 20 S. Wacker Drive. The CME was founded in 1898 as the Chicago Butter and Egg Board, an agricultural commodities exchange.
Activities The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center CME Program sponsors a range of activities including live courses directed primarily at non-staff physicians, which may offer hands-on skill training, and regularly scheduled conferences directed to specific groups of specialists on the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center staff, and offered to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center regional networks through video-conferencing technology.