 I'm Rodney Taylor and I am the professor and chairman of the University of Maryland Department of Otorhinolaryngology and head neck surgery. I have both clinical research, teaching and administrative responsibilities. What I specialize is in tumors and cancers of the head neck but I also do a fair amount of rhinology which is sinus surgery and management of sinus disease and skull-based surgery and from an educational standpoint I am charged with the pleasure and the responsibility of training the next generation of otorhinolaryngologists. I went to Harvard Medical School and it was there where not only had I declared my interest in medicine but began to get more exposed to and introduced to otorhinolaryngology and then I went to the University of Michigan where I was really fortunate to get wonderful training and and the specialty but also I went to a program that had an additional year of research and I developed additional skills and training to do research which propelled me towards an academic career. Whether it is taking care of a patient on a given day or interacting with a resident I am more keenly aware of the opportunity that I have to impact someone's life to leave a lasting fingerprint on on that individual to inject humanity when I am teaching or seeing a patient who is presenting me with a new cancer diagnosis and that's very fulfilling very rewarding. I'll see patients who required very extensive treatment whether it be surgical and non-surgical such as radiation or chemotherapy and one of the very first questions I asked them is what are your passions? It's critically important to me that the things that are important to them that they pursue continue to pursue with a vengeance. Their goals and life are shared by me that those things that are important to them we're going to get you back to doing that and that is part of the motivation to go through treatment and to have a care plan that is thoughtful and tailored to you and multidisciplinary and that it has a bunch of experts who are dedicated for those same goals.