 I'm Dr. Bill Moreau, I'm the vice president of sports medicine for the United States Olympic Committee. We're here this particular weekend to celebrate and learn about how to prevent injury and illness in the athletic population. It's absolutely critical that we're able to continue to advance the body of knowledge, practices and skills in collaboration with the Steadman Philopon Research Institute to protect athletes worldwide. This conference is a second annual conference and I'm sure there will be many more to come. It's an amazing opportunity to be with my colleagues and meet new individuals that are interested in preventing injury in athletes. It's absolutely imperative that we advance the prevention agenda for sporting activity. When you look at the United States and actually the worldwide population of people, I think that in 1976 there were no states that had a 25% or higher obesity rate. Twenty years later every state has a 25% or higher obesity rate. Physical activity and sport bring not just the ability to enhance health but also to build mental strength and to be able to learn from sport. It's my opinion that a lot of parents now are concerned about their children becoming injured in sport and therefore they withhold them from sporting participation that have been done for over a hundred years in the United States and around the world. And so together with the researchers that are assembled here between the United States Olympic Committee and the Steadman Philopon Research Institute together we're going to collaborate and establish an agenda and execute on that agenda to protect the health and wellness of athletes worldwide regardless of their level of ability. In 2017 the IOC awarded the United States Coalition for the Prevention of Illness and Injury in Sport a prestigious recognition that recognition is an IOC International Center of Research Excellence on Prevention of Illness and Injury in Athletes. Now there's been nine other centers around the world but we're the first one to ever be recognized in the United States of America and this is very important. Because it provides the opportunity for people to come together and center on the topic of prevention and in athletics. And so the Steadman Philopon Institute, the United States Olympic Committee as well as the University of Utah are the three key partners that drive this agenda. So it gives us an opportunity to focus but also to work on the prevention of illness and injury in athletes not only for the elite athlete but actually for athletes around the world. And truly believe in my heart of hearts that we're going to make a difference. I'm very fortunate in that I have the opportunity to work with Olympic and Paralympic athletes on a daily basis. It's amazing to be able to hear that Olympic or Paralympic story and you become invested in these people because the effort that they give with really the single-minded focus of raising the stars and stripes, the flag of the United States of America and hearing the national anthem as a result of their personal effort. You know it often takes up to 20 years to actually reach an Olympic or Paralympic Games, 20 years of effort and I have seen athletes that were given it everything they had only to sustain a devastating injury in the month or months before the Games which essentially erases their opportunity. You have to understand that in order to be the best in the world many things must be right. Of course everybody is a great athlete but you also have to maintain your health so that you can be the best in the world on a particular day. If you for instance tear your ACL or sustain the labral tear in your hip that prevents you from performing and you have to have a procedure done to correct it, you'll miss the window and it's very difficult for somebody who misses the window to come back and achieve that opportunity again. So there's a lot of skin in the game to help take care of these wonderful people that comprise Team USA. Thank you and thanks to everybody for the opportunity just to simply speak about the value of this symposium and the importance of the relationship between the Steadman-Philipon Research Institute and Team USA. It means a lot to me.