 I'm Dr. Judy Aschner and as Chair of Pediatrics and Physician-in-Chief, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center. We are a full-service children's hospital with more than 25 medical and surgical pediatrics of specialties represented among our outstanding faculty. I believe that we have the best pediatric rheumatology program anywhere in the northeast. We actually have the largest pediatric rheumatology center in terms of numbers in the New York City, New Jersey, Tri-State area. We are a three-year-long ACGME accredited program in pediatric rheumatology. We are excited about this fellowship because we have a fantastic faculty at our hospital with six board-certified pediatric rheumatology attendings as well as one pediatric rheumatology nurse practitioner. Our attendings have expertise in a very diverse range of topics throughout the field and are invited to speak internationally on various topics. We have a really experienced and enthusiastic faculty. They're here because they love to teach and they love to do research, so they're very academic. All of our faculty are known for their clinical expertise as well as their leadership in research. We have anywhere from 10 to 20 active research studies that we are doing at any one time. All of us are very active in the leadership of CARA, which is the North American Research Network for Pediatric rheumatology that encompasses over 140 sites and over 90 percent of pediatric rheumatologists. Our fellows will have opportunities in clinical bench as well as educational research. They will also be able to do bench research at our brand new Center for Discovery and Innovation, which is extremely exciting. Hackensack is located about 20 minutes out of New York City. There's really the opportunity to either choose the suburban life or to choose the more urban life, and I think we're able to sort of get the best of both worlds. We really want to train fellows who are driven to succeed in whatever area they choose, whether it's in education, clinical work, or in research, or combination, and we are looking for talented fellows who will want to continue in their area of expertise when their fellowship is completed and be able to contribute to our field of pediatric rheumatology. I can't think of a better place for someone to train than here at the Joseph M. Cesare Children's Hospital in our new fellowship training program in pediatric rheumatology.