 After becoming the first member of his family to go to college, Dr. Chuck Deetson founded a global pediatric group that mentors young doctors and treats children around the world. My name is Chuck Deetson, I'm a medical doctor and I'm the chief of pediatric rehabilitation at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health. The footprint that's been the greatest for me is the formation of Timmy Global Health which I started in 1997. My footprint is literally in 31 other countries serving underserved communities and taking care of children who would not have gotten health care otherwise. Meanwhile I take students with me, undergraduate students as well as graduate students and sometimes even high school students who travel with Timmy Global Health and that footprint now is all over the world but these young men and women who have then decided to practice medicine or other areas of health care were able to kind of test that while I and others mentored them. Things to Purdue, I was very involved in athletics so I was able to put this idea of like pediatric rehab you can get to be a coach and a doctor and work with children to help inspire them and in a like fashion they inspire me to do great things so it was a great career choice for me. This campus really gave me the opportunity to take lots of giant leaps. Purdue was a great place to come and have the guidance and the support to learn to live more independently and to take on more and more responsibility. So recently I agreed to be a faculty in residence and I'm at 3rd Street Suites, I have an apartment there. I'm bringing in a network of people that I've met all over the world to come and meet with the students and to hear their ideas and exchange ideas and give them that sort of positive support that they really do have this great opportunity to change the world and we'd love to help them do that. That was Dr. Chuck Dietzen, look for more stories at Purdue.edu slash footprints.