 Hello, my name is Stephen Bloomfield and I'm one of the neurosurgical professors at JFK Hospital at the New Jersey Neuroscience Institute. While I was initially interested in brain research, I went into graduate school for brain research and then after about three years I decided that I liked people better than I liked being in a laboratory with animals and so I decided to go to medical school. Through my training I became much more interested in functional neurosurgery which is the effort to try to help patients regain function once they become disabled by intractable epilepsy movement disorders or chronic pain syndromes. So it's been a passion of mine to help improve the function of these patients to enable them to get back into their lives and enable them to have a better quality of life. Patients are family and we want to give them the treatment that we would want our family members to receive and the hallmark of that is to listen and to then communicate with them in as clear manner as possible in order to help them understand not only their condition but what the risks and benefits of various treatment options would be available to them thereby enabling them to make an educated decision that they could live with comfortably.