 Hi, I'm Dr. Jeronella. I'm a pediatric rheumatologist here at Hackensack Meridian Children's Health. Someone may need to see a pediatric rheumatologist if they're concerned that their child is having ongoing or chronic joint pains or body pains that actually affect the child's day-to-day activities or fevers that don't go away or instances where there's inflammation seen in the lab work that's unexplained by any other symptoms. As a physician, I really believe in including both the patient and the family in our plan of care. I really believe that it's important to engage the child because I feel that if the child also understands why they're here seeing you today, why am I taking this medication, I think that helps empower them but also also helps them understand why it's important to do what they're doing. The advice I always give to families is that if they feel that they don't understand something, if they feel that they don't get their concerns addressed to speak up, I don't want them to feel that we're just telling them what to do, what you need to do. I also want them to be able to have some say in in our plan of care. Ultimately, I think educating the families about what's going on, the treatment also helps build that confidence and trust and I feel that's very important for us to move forward and to ensure better outcomes for their children.