My name is Jeannean Carver and I am a pediatric intensive care physician specialist at the University of Virginia Children's Hospital. There are lots and lots of players involved in the care of a really sick child. My job is to sort of supervise them all and organizing how we're going to care for these patients, putting all their expertise together to help me make decisions, and then sort of just steering the ship where it needs to go with each patient. We take care of everything. The sickest children can come to the University of Virginia and receive the care they need without having to travel to foreign places far away. I'm very proud of that and this program has grown a lot over the 20 years that I've been here. 

We have the premier heart disease center for children in the state and we are doing some incredible state of the art things there, including artificial hearts and transplants for kidneys, livers, and hearts. The rewarding part is when I feel like I am able to meet someone's cultural needs, when I can figure out how to be what they need me to be, and that's not always easy. You walk into a room and every room is different, every family is different. They come at things differently with different backgrounds and view points. If I can figure that out and help them and be there for them, that's probably the most rewarding thing of all.