I'm Robert Dreicer, I'm the Deputy Director of the University of Virginia Cancer Center, and I'm also a Professor of Medicine and Urology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. 

I'm a urologic medical oncologist. That means that both my clinical focus and my clinical research focus is in patients with prostate, bladder, kidney, testes, and adrenal cancers. Honesty is important. One of the things that I've learned along the way is that people are pretty smart, and they know what's going on. So most of the time, having frank, honest discussions with people about what the situation is and trying to find a way to sort of take the journey together has worked pretty well.

I would like to think that over the years, with the help of my colleagues; I've developed a certain level of expertise in managing the disease, and as an investigator, trying to bring new drug trials into these disease states. Although the center has been small for a long time, there's been very rapid growth over the last couple of years led by really progressive new leadership. Our center is growing rapidly in our ability to provide the kind of world-class care for cancer is sort of unprecedented in terms of the historical perspective of folks thinking about UVA. So, we're proud of what we're doing and we have lots of work to do, and we're going to work hard in doing it.