 My name is Abby Smith and I'm a physician assistant. I work now as the lung health navigator with the comprehensive lung care program here at Michigan Health. The lung health navigator will be working across the continuum of care for our patients who are undergoing screening for lung cancers who may be at high risk secondary to a history of smoking or other risk factors like chemical or environmental exposure as well as family history. I also start in with patients who may have an abnormal scan that's incidental. These scans once we find the abnormality are flagged to the navigator. I then contact the provider as well as the patient to have them evaluated here in our comprehensive program by either the pulmonologist or the surgeon or wherever the patient needs to be seen first. We review each case with our multi disciplinary team that includes the surgeon, the pulmonologist, our pathology and radiology teams as well as the oncology team with hopes and with the goal of improving the care experience for our patients here in our community and really expediting care for those who need it the most. So what I love most about my job and I'll have to go back to the fact that I was raised here in Midland so being able to work here in my community and develop relationships with members of our community needing care here in the hospital. It's those relationships that really provide me with reward and fulfillment on a daily basis. Certainly cancer can be one of the most overwhelming and heartbreaking journeys that we may go through during our lifetime and it almost becomes my honor to be able to sit with you on that journey. I like to think of myself as a navigator. I love that title that goes along with this position because that means I get to be there every step of the way. So from the beginning when something suspicious is found, when the concern is growing for possibly a lung cancer or a nodule that needs to be followed, I remain alongside our patients walking through testing, surgeries and procedures, starting treatments and making sure that their time with their family and friends is the best it can be that they're feeling the best they can and once treatment is over I even remain working to provide treatment summaries and survivorship care for our champions and our heroes here in the community who have faced cancer, have overcome it and are going back to living their lives.