 My name is David Zapata, and I'm an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Cardiac Surgery. I'm primarily an adult cardiac surgeon, and I specialize in minimally invasive and robotic surgery, including mitrovav surgery and other aspects of robotic cardiac surgery as well. I specialize in using the robot in a minimally invasive fashion to do valve repairs and do valve replacements without having to make a large sternotomy incision. And there's many benefits to having a smaller incision and doing it in a minimally invasive format that ultimately help patients. My goal for patients is to offer robotic intracardiac surgery to a wide variety of patients that would meet criteria for this surgery. It's not just for mitro valves. It's for tricuspid valves. It is for patients that need ablations or otherwise need treatment for their atrial fibrillation. Patients with holes in their heart, like if they have atrial septal defects or patent frame in a valley. Those are things that we can fix with the robot as well. And then finally, patients with cardiac tumors such as cardiac mixomas. These can be removed surgically with the robot and do not require traditional sternotomy like before. The coolest thing about the heart for me is that we can repair it. We can stop it and do all sorts of things to it and then it wakes back up like nothing happened to it. And we're able to fix the heart and then when it comes back it's almost as if it's dancing happily because it's received the repair or the replacement that it needed. The heart's anatomy is so complex and that we are just privileged to be able to have the opportunity to help people in this way. So I find that very exciting and feel very blessed to be in the position to help people in this way.