 I chose Hackensack Meridian Health to practice medicine because of its unique environment where there is access to care within the community, but the care can be distributed to a tertiary care center for subspecialty services if needed. The number of people that are affected by gynecological cancers in our three-county region of Monmouth, Ocean and Middlesex counties are approximately 1,000 women every year. Hackensack Meridian Health uses a team-based care and it is important for cancer patients because diagnosis and treatment is just a portion of medical care, but the total package of care for a cancer patient involves their family, their community, their nutrition, their social, their psychological, all avenues of their total health and it requires a team in order to address all of those issues to most appropriately treat and direct their care. To me, to get to know the individual patient, to follow them from the beginning of their path through the end of their path, that is what drew me to be a cancer care doctor.