 My name is Blake Waterworth. I'm a pain management physician and assistant professor of anesthesiology at the University of Maryland in the department of anesthesiology. I went to medical school at Temple University in Philadelphia. I then did my anesthesiology training here at University of Maryland, followed by a pain management physician fellowship at University of Maryland as well. Personally I was interested in pain management back in medical school. I remember doing a rotation, walking up and down the wards, doing rounds, meeting a lot of different patients with many different diseases, both common, both uncommon. And one big pervasive issue was pain on top of the disease and dealing with that. And I thought how interesting it would be to be able to treat and heal people with something that's really at the forefront of their minds on top of everything else that they had to deal with. And the more I learned about the specialty of pain management, the more I became interested learning about all the different techniques we can use, not only medications, but kind of really looking at the whole body and mind and bringing that together and really incorporating multiple different specialties together to really help people and make a difference and impact their lives. So my typical day involves seeing patients in our outpatient facility. Our main campus is at University of Maryland Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Institute. We're also expanding to a few different areas within the university. The other part of my time is performing different various procedures, some injection techniques, as well as some of the newer nerve stimulation and spinal cord stimulation procedures that also are new and forthcoming in the world of pain management. The way I tend to look at patients who are in pain, I look at the entire patient, not just what medications they're on, you know, not just the disease process, but really have to take into account the whole body and mind looking at a comprehensive strategy to manage pain. There's a lot of influence in how you deal with pain and how you cope with pain, not just the initial injury or initial insult or surgery that may have caused pain or disease process that might be producing pain. So we really involve multiple specialty comprehensive approach to pain management, which can include medications and strengthening and stretching and things with physical therapy and our colleagues in orthopedics and some behavioral health and integrative medicine techniques that are also emerging in the world of pain management. So my ultimate goal in a comprehensive pain management strategy is really trying to work with the patient and getting them back to being as functional as possible. That might be getting back to work, it might be playing with their grandkids, whatever it is they might want to do is where we put our minds to. A lot of that incorporates pain relief as much as possible, more activity, more exercise, but ultimately reducing pain, increasing function is what my goal would be.