 This year at the Stemma Clinic has been incredible and it went much faster than I hoped it had gone. Just to work with all these guys has been absolutely fantastic. It's certainly been a long journey over the last 11 or 12 years through medical school and residency, so we're definitely looking forward to moving on to the next chapter of our life. Prior to deciding to get into medicine, I had been in the military and specifically in the Marine Corps for about six years. It really endued in me a sense of service to other people and when I got out of the military, medicine was kind of the next logical step in that process and it was a great opportunity to be in a career that would challenge me mentally and intellectually but then also at its core be dedicated to the service of other people. The opportunities here at the Stemma Clinic and the Stemma Philippine Research Institute are really second to none. To walk out of the operating room, then go and repeat that surgery in the surgical skills lab is incredible and I doubt there are many places really in the world where you can do something like that and it really helps refine your skills and refine your techniques and give you the confidence moving forward out of here that you can do the same surgeries that you see done here. This has been a fantastic year not just for me but for my family as well. I have three young daughters and they did a ton of skiing. My wife had a great time. She made some great friends with some of the other fellows' wives and it's just been overall a great family year for us and a great environment for us to spend a lot of time together in addition to the work that we do here in the clinic and in the research institute. We'll certainly have great memories of this past year and I think from a professional standpoint it's really helped me develop tremendously.