 Hi, my name is Dr. Suleyat Niridine. I'm an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. I specialize in breast surgical oncology and deal with all conditions related to breast disease. I did my medical school at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. I did my general surgery training at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. And I did a breast surgical oncology fellowship at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. I chose breast surgery because of the multidisciplinary approach to care. It gives you the opportunity to work with other specialists in the field and make a personalized decision when it comes to caring for our breast patients. My goal is for patients to be joint decision makers in their care. I want to make sure that they're making informed decisions and making sure that we're doing what is truly best for them. This is such a great time to be in the field of breast cancer surgery. Care is so much that we're doing now in terms of trying to personalize care for patients and moving towards deescalating the amount of surgery that we have to do for patients. Caring for breast cancer patients is a truly rewarding experience. When patients come to you, they're extremely nervous with their new diagnosis and you have that opportunity to walk them through it and see them all the way to the end. Breast cancer is no longer the diagnosis of the past. Patients are living longer, fuller lives and I love that I have the opportunity to go through that with them.