 Hello everyone, welcome back to Vale Colorado for the Vale Scientific Summit. This is the third year of the summit, I'm Greg Lewis and we're on day two and I'm joined by the man who is the vice president in charge of sports medicine for the USOC, that's the US Olympic Committee, Dr. Bill Murrow, and it's good to see you here. What are you trying to accomplish here? This is all about heavy-duty science, and you know, are you into that? Well, Greg, I've learned that I'm not into it, the love of the presenters are. No, it's hard, this is high-level stuff. Absolutely, you know, the 65 presenters that are here are literally the world's best of the best when it comes to the topics related around cellular science and the protection and prevention of health as well as the restoration of health. Obviously, I have a tremendous responsibility as leading sports medicine for the United States Olympic Committee to be able to look out for the individuals' health of the athletes whether they're Olympic or Paralympic athletes. We need to be able to protect and preserve their health and in fact, we really believe that if we can feel the healthy team, that Team USA will win the day on the field of play. You know, feeling a healthy team is obviously the objective for every team, a football team, an NFL team, they're playing every Sunday. An Olympic athlete has got once every four years. So this idea of advancing, healing, making it happen faster is even more critical it seems for them. Well, you know, Greg, actually it's not even once every four years. Most athletes will work 20 years for one chance. And so it's very difficult for athletes to repeat as Olympic athletes. You see it in swimming and track and field and in some other sports, but the majority of Olympians really make it, it's one shot in their lifetime and it is not uncommon at all that they've trained 20 years for that one shot. And of course in your role you've seen some athletes who've had that injury and they couldn't go to the games, which has got to be shattering. Well you know, it really is the public perception that the games occur basically once every four years is usually based around the summer games, but in actuality the Olympic games occur every two years. If you look at summer and then winter and the privilege of leading sports medicine for Team USA provides me with the opportunity to actually come to understand the athletes as people and you know their story, the trials and tribulations that they've went through in order to achieve the opportunity to represent the United States of America on the largest stage in sports in the world. So what are you learning here that's going to be helpful? Are you optimistic about what's happening here and the changes that that's going to bring to sports medicine? Well I think that clearly many of the speakers have already supported concepts that many of us know, but the evidence is extremely strong about the benefits of exercise. And so one of the concepts of the United States Olympic Committee is that the athletic performances of Team USA will inspire Americans to become more physically active, clearly physical activity regardless of who you are or how old you are helps to preserve your health. But in addition to that there's the new science that relates to dietary type of things that people can do to take care of themselves to protect and preserve their health as well as the future of what protective regenerative medical interventions will look like is something that we need to stay on top of. It's so important because the recovery from an injury or illness if it takes, it has to be minimized because if the individual is taken out of practice or play for any significant period of time their opponents are still gaining and they're not. So the USOC, the US Olympic Committee has had a long involvement now with the Steadman Clinic and the Steadman-Philipon Research Institute. You want to talk about that and what this relationship does to advance sport for the Olympians? Well, it's actually a privilege to be able to speak to that. Many years ago an iconic orthopedic surgeon and I consider a personal friend of mine, Dr. Steadman, became very involved in sport and developing new techniques and cutting edge technology in order to enhance and provide for the care of US athletes and indeed athletes from around the world. And since that time with his iconic presence, the Steadman Clinic and the Steadman-Philipon Research Institute have continued to grow and other people have now moved in and are trying to continue the legacy that Dr. Steadman started. Dr. Mark Philippon is also a personal friend of mine. I don't even want to start naming the names for fear I might forget somebody because virtually everybody here is a star and they have been strong supporters for Team USA and absolutely a place that I have a tremendous amount of confidence in and I really bring in people from all over the United States that represent the finest athletes that the United States has to offer right here to Vila, Colorado to receive the services because that's really my job. My job is to make sure that that athlete is placed before the finest physicians I can find to provide them with the best opportunity to recover their health and return to the field of play. And those physicians are here and they're learning and they're exchanging ideas with the scientists. It seems like it's a very positive time in sports medicine. Well, you know, I'm really optimistic about that for the first time in my life and I've been in sports medicine for over 30 years and I won't say exactly how many, but nevertheless, you know, for me, I'm seeing a cultural change in regards to sports participation. Parents are concerned about the risk of injury and they're thinking maybe sports participation isn't such a great thing. But on the other hand, if you look at some people mentioning that by 2040, 50% of the US population will be pre-diabetic or diabetic. And one of the best ways to fight that off is through physical fitness and physical activity. It's extremely important that if you're not part of organized sports, you must be physically activity. You must have a way to be physically active. And that's one of the things I really like about coming up here because the physicians themselves, as well as their staff, the environment avail is certainly all about being outdoors and doing things. It's not about sitting around and we need to continue to provide the opportunities and inspirations for Americans of all ages and indeed people all around the world to keep moving in order to preserve their health. We're just over five months from the lighting of the torch in South Korea for the winter games. How's the US team looking? Well, Greg, I think that we're going to field some of the finest athletes in the world. I firmly believe that I see how hard Team USA is preparing to represent the United States of America in the field of competition. And I can tell you one thing when it comes time to get it on and get those games started, that Team USA is going to be there and they're going to bring the best that they have to the field of competition. Thank you very much, Dr. Bill Moreau of the USOC. We'll be back a little later with more reporting from the Vail Scientific Summit. It's going to be an exciting afternoon. Join us then.