 I am Natalie Leong. I am an associate professor of orthopedic surgery at University of Maryland School of Medicine. I specialize in sports medicine and shoulder surgery. I also serve as the chief of orthopedic surgery at the Baltimore VA Medical Center. So when people think of sports medicine, they tend to think only athletes of a certain age range on the field, but that's not true at all. I take care of patients from very young children all the way to elderly patients because sports medicine is not just about the athletes, but it's also about people who have occupational injuries. We consider them occupational athletes and also people who just have other injuries that can be treated by minimally invasive surgeries such as shoulder or knee arthroscopy or people who have tendon or ligament injuries that need to be healed. The most common things I treat would be ACL tears, patellar instability which is when the kneecap dislocates, some meniscal tears, and then in the shoulders I treat rotator cuff tears, people who have arthritis that need a shoulder replacement. I also do surgeries for some hand conditions such as carpal tunnel, cubital tunnel, and trigger fingers. I first got interested in orthopedics when I was 17 years old and I joined an orthopedic research laboratory in the bioengineering department at Columbia University. And there we tried to grow cartilage and bone in the laboratory and I thought it was the coolest thing. I spent all the years since working in the research lab alongside everything I do clinically. So really from an early age I just became excited about what orthopedic surgeons do and the potential that biologic treatments have for the future of our field. My absolute favorite thing in clinic is when I see patients after surgery. When they come back and everything is fixed and they can get back to doing everything they were doing before or wanted to do and they don't need me anymore.