 I'm Carolyn Cronin, I'm an associate professor of neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the medical director for the Maryland Young Stroke Center. I take care of adult patients in the neurology care center primarily with stroke and other vascular neurology disorders and also take care of some headache patients as well. The brain is the most important organ in the body. It's what makes us human, it's what makes us who we are and when it, you know, is not functioning at optimum, it has significant impacts on people's lives. My goal for patients, you know, especially stroke patients is for them to recover as much as possible from the deficits from their stroke so that they can, you know, live their best lives and also to investigate what caused their stroke and make any changes that we need to make in order to prevent them from having any further problems in the future. And with headache patients, you know, headache is, people think of it as a minor problem, but it has significant impact on people's quality of life and their ability to function and so doing whatever we can to minimize that impact, you know, is the main goal of therapy. When we can use those acute interventions to break up clots, open up blood vessels, and sometimes you can see dramatic improvement in people's, you know, exams and functioning, you know, within the first day of them coming into the hospital and that's always obviously very exciting and dramatic for everybody. Some patients, it takes longer and, you know, maybe they don't fully recover, but I get to see them in clinic, you know, a few months later and a few months after that and get to see that progression of improvement that people have after stroke. And it can be a slow and sometimes frustrating process for patients and there may not be day-to-day improvement, but there can be significant improvement over sort of the course and being able to, you know, kind of help them through that and follow them during that longitudinal time and, you know, help optimize things for them is very rewarding.