 My name is Dr. Jun Tishiro. I'm a pediatric surgeon at Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital at Hackensite University Medical Center. I want patients and their families to be able to feel comfortable that they have someone that has been trained in both general surgery and pediatric surgery. When parents have a child that, you know, they're coming to you for something that worries them or their pediatrician has sent them to you for evaluation, it's very stressful for them. Of course, we see many patients every day, but this may be one of the first times that they brought their child to a surgeon. It's extremely important to be able to put yourself in their shoes. Being a parent myself, I often do see it from their perspective, having had my children be sick or in the hospital. I do think that it's extremely important to be able to have that empathy, to be able to feel the same way that a parent would when you have a very stressful situation with your child. I want them to feel comfortable that they have someone that's well trained, that's able to help them through that process of going from achieving a diagnosis all the way to treatment and recovery.