 My year in Vail has been great. From a personal level, it's been a great experience for me and my family. We were fortunate enough to welcome our second daughter earlier in the year, so we had big changes both personally and professionally. You know, the saying about people come for the winter, but stay for the summer couldn't be more true. The whitewater rafting that we did, the hiking that we did, even just going enjoying the lake or the park and just being in this phenomenal environment, we couldn't ask for much more. We have an amazing group of fellows. I don't think you could ask for a group of eight strangers from different places, with different backgrounds around the country to have become more close over the course of just a year. Not only acquired some professional colleagues, but also a great group of friends leading here. Professionally, this was a big step in my career. I had been in prior practice for a little bit, but I knew I wanted to focus on academic medicine, and I really thought there was no better place than the Steadman Clinic and Steadman Philp on Research Institute to help propel me into that next stage of my career. Some of us are lucky enough to have one or two or three good mentors in a lifetime, and at the Steadman Clinic you encounter six, seven or eight mentors that are world-renowned leaders in their subspecialty, and we get to interact with them daily on a personal level, social level, and professional level. That is unmatched far and away. I think the most important thing that I learned this year was the value of teamwork and having a strong support group around you, from athletic trainers to physician assistants to all the administrative staff, are what really makes the surgeons here be as successful as they can be. I'm really anxious to carry that team model with me going forward.