 My name is Jonathan Knowles. I'm the Chief of Colorectal Surgery at JFK University Medical Center. My specialist area is complex colorectal disorders, predominantly surgical treatment of those, things like bowel cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, problems of the anus and rectum like hemorrhoids and fissures and abscesses. I started practicing in 2000 and did my fellowship in Australia in 2012. I then worked as an attending and Chief of Colorectal and General Surgery in a large hospital in London before moving over to the US in 2021. Developing relationships with patients and delivering them life-changing care is incredibly rewarding. A lot of the situations where I see patients they can be very anxious and very vulnerable and really your role in that situation is provide as much information as they need. Patients battle with a feeling of a loss of control. They feel that they have given their life over to somebody else. They are ordering a lot of tests and a lot of procedures and they feel like they don't have control over that. And I think it's really important to reassure them and to work with the patient so that they feel like they're involved in the process and understand the process. I want to give the very best care and deliver it to the individual tailored to what they need.