 I'm a professor at the Faculty of Kinesiology and coming school of medicine at the University of Calgary and I chair the Canadian IOC, Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre. So the focus of our research and knowledge translation program has really been around addressing the burden of sport injury in youth. These are the kids that are participating in sport now and we want to make sure that they have an opportunity for lifetime participation in sport and physical activity. So we've focused on really evaluating prevention strategies across the spectrum looking at training strategies, policy and rules of the game as well as equipment and then across the continuum. So not just primary prevention but also secondary prevention of recurrent injury as well as long-term consequences of injury and concussion. Yes, so I think there's an increasing body of evidence related to sport specialization in youth and certainly in some sports and certainly in Canada and the US kids have the opportunity to play at quite elite levels of play very early. That comes along with huge time commitment to one sport. In practices and games for example in youth ice hockey there's not a lot of opportunity to participate in other sports. And so I think when we look at gross motor skill development and we look at injury risk we look at load I think that becomes a real problem in terms of injury risk both acute injuries as well as chronic injuries such as tendinopathies for example. So I think if you speak to some of our Olympic athletes now and they talk about their experience in their youth they were playing all sorts of sports which is why we have athletes that actually compete in more than one sport and I think that that's not happening as much now certainly and it's really unfortunate because we see kids that are injured they can't go back to a particular sport but they don't have any experience or any practice in other sports so especially in youth they're hesitant to take that up. So we see about a 8% dropout from organized sport every year and as we know the more significant epidemic that's associated with injury is actually decreased levels of physical activity and obesity. So it was really exciting to have the opportunity to come here and it's really nice that we now have two centers in North America, two IOC centers focused on research and injury and illness prevention and athletes and I would say that the focus areas that we have in the two different centers in Canada and the US are complementary so I think there's a huge opportunity here for collaboration and we can do a lot more together than we can do independently so I really look forward to some of those opportunities. The opportunity to work with so many different people across different disciplines is really critical and I see a similar philosophy here as we have in Canada in that regard and I think that it's going to be really important to answer some of those really difficult questions particularly as they relate to primary prevention and prevention of consequences of injury. You know, it no longer are the days that we're as a scientific community successful in our own little bubbles in our own little areas and I think it's really important in the granting agency see that too and you see a lot more opportunity for team grants and programmatic grants where it's critically important to not only have the interdisciplinary researchers but also have those community partners who are essential in really the translation of the work we're doing but also in helping us to ask the right questions that will have context for them in terms of implementation.