[MUSIC PLAYING] We're really excited to have this happen here at the University of Virginia, and within cardiology, specifically, to have a cardiovascular genetics program, because for years we've been dealing with patients and their families with structural heart diseases that are genetic. And in fact, many are profoundly genetic in the sense that parents will pass those genes on to one half of their offspring. So every child they have has a 50% chance of having the same affected gene and potentially developing the same cardiac condition. The beauty of the genetics testing is that we can find an affected patient. Their relatives can be screened relative to that gene to see what their individual risk is, and follow them for as long as we think we need to exclude it or to include it. Most of these syndromes that we're talking about in these types of structural heart disease are rare. For a single practitioner, to be dealing with these frequently is very difficult. So it's generally better to see these patients in specialized centers, and that's what we're striving to create here is a home for patients and their families to be evaluated, but also to provide treatment, reassurance, longitudinal follow-up, and diagnostic testing to help assist them in leading their lives to the fullest but also to the safest. One of the things that we do here in the cardiovascular genetics clinic is we do the testing on-site in conjunction with the patient visit. And it's important to look at the data in the context of the individual patient. We believe very strongly in getting to know patients and their families and trying to establish a level of comfort and honesty. And that can only be done in a face-to-face encounter. We don't open computer programs and fiddle around with the EMR during our visits. We look at people, we talk to them. We try to get to know them as best we can because what we're really talking about is helping them live their lives to the fullest. And until you understand what their goals are, where they are now, where they want to be in a few years-- maybe it's starting a family. Maybe it's trying a new profession, something of that sort. We want to know those things so that we can help them get there. Often people are afraid of having a diagnosis made that could potentially change their lives. What we find, however, is once they come to grips with it and they realize that we can manage this and that we can educate them, these patients and their families typically do really well. And it's really fun to see people manage something that otherwise might have been difficult with grace and dignity and be able to move on with their lives.