 I'm Haru Ahmed. I'm an assistant professor of neurology and neurosurgery, specifically working in neuro-oncology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and I primarily am focused in the Greenerbaum Cancer Center here at the University of Maryland. I work primarily with patients with primary brain tumors which means patients that have cancers or tumors which originate in the brain or spinal cord and I also see patients that have cancers elsewhere such as lung cancer, breast cancer, melanoma, which I've spread to the brain that primarily compromised my patient population. I work in close tandem with neurosurgery and radiation oncology kind of as a three-pronged attack against brain tumors and that's kind of the reason I came to this center was specifically to kind of complete that team. The interdisciplinary proto used to treat patients with brain tumors and other CNS tumors. I actually grew up here in Baltimore, Maryland, but I did most of my training at the University of Virginia both from medical school and neuro-oncology fellowship. My residency in neurology was at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine in New Jersey and so I completed my neuro-oncology fellowship in 2018-2019 and now I'm back here in Maryland and happy to be back. The best part of my job about my job is easily the relationship you develop with the patients. It's not just kind of a you know often specialties have a high and by you treat them you never see them again but I often tell my patients that we're on this journey together there's going to be ups and downs and you know I really get to know the families closely and it's it's quite rewarding even though you know the outcomes are not always great but you know just to be on that journey with them and to support them through the ups and downs.