 Hi, my name is Greg Canarsa. I'm a six-year neurosurgery resident at the University of Maryland Medical Center, and I also did a year fellowship with the endovascular surgical neuro-interventional group here. It was an in-folded fellowship. I worked closely with the attendings here, Dr. Dheeraj Gandhi, Dr. Garov Jindal, and Dr. Timothy Miller. In that year, I had the chance and the privilege to do over close to 500 cases of all sorts, including diagnostic angiograms, but also intervention cases such as mechanical thrombectomies where we essentially unclog the arteries in an acute stroke. It's tremendously rewarding when a patient comes in acutely weak due to a stroke and you're part of the team that can unclog that artery and the patient, it seems miraculous, can move there that whole side again and talk again. As well, we coiled ruptured aneurysms. We stopped acute bleeds at all sorts of wide variety of cases of huge diversity, but most importantly, it's a great team here, the attendings, the nurses, the techs, everyone who works here is part of a team and I really loved it the whole year and we got to help a lot of patients and there's really nothing I would change about it. Working with the attendings was given graduated autonomy as I worked with them. We worked together and learned more and more. So ultimately, I think this is a great program. I think pretty much anything that's done in this field is done here and most importantly, the people are what matter and I wouldn't trade anything for the year I did with them. I'm Gaurav Jindal, I'm one of the interventional neuro radiologists here at the University of Maryland. I had the privilege of starting here about nine years ago now. I was coming straight out of my fellowship program at the time and when I began here, we had a fellowship program. It was in its infancy and I soon after starting became the program director and a few years later, we pursued ACGME accreditation of the fellowship and I'm proud to say that we're now one of only seven programs in the country that are ACGME accredited and we garnered accreditation in 2016 and we're in good standing with the ACGME since that time. I've had the privilege of training probably about a dozen fellows at this point including several neurosurgery residents who did an infolded fellowship year with us as well as graduating probably about five to six fellows since getting accredited and we have a high volume, well structured fellowship program and it's really come together nicely over the last few years to several years we have a rigorous didactic curriculum now which we have been working on for the past few years and really have honed in on that at this point which includes a monthly M&M conference, a journal club, case conferences as well as didactic lectures. We also have multidisciplinary meetings with our stroke neurology colleagues. Very recently we're doing that with our neurocritical care colleagues as well as our neurosurgery colleagues. I think some of the strengths of our fellowship program beyond being one of few accredited programs in the country are the high volume and great diversity of interventional cases that we do. We probably hit about a thousand cases per year. Our fellows routinely will get experience in three, four, five hundred plus cases in a year and in addition we have a great working collaboration with the other neuro services around the hospital in addition to great collaboration with our orthopedic colleagues, our ophthalmology colleagues our ENT colleagues, our trauma surgery service. I think you name it and we do it here when it comes to neuro interventional. Like many programs five to 10 years ago we were doing only a handful of interventional stroke cases per year. Now we are a regional leader in the number of strokes that we do and we may reach 200 stroke cases annually per year. We're doing almost that many brain aneurysms each year. We see a great number of trauma cases which come from our excellent trauma surgery hospital which is a part of the university. Our fellows, when they graduate they go on to great places both in academics as well as in private practice and I keep in touch with many of them still and uniformly they tell me what a great program that we have, what great experience, hands-on experience that they've gotten and I'm proud to see them move on with their careers and I'm happy to continue to keep in touch with them. So it's been a real pleasure to be the program director of such a large and great fellowship program over the last few years and I think we're just gonna continue to expand and grow. We've recently hired a neurosurgery attending who is trained in open vascular surgery as well as endovascular surgery and I think that'll only add to the program and to the educational and clinical experience that our fellows are so happy to get while they're here.