My name is Nadia Lunardi, and I am a general anesthesiologist, a critical care anesthesiologist, and also a clinician scientist here at UVA. In the main operating room, I take care of a variety of patients. In the critical care setting, I do specialize in looking after patients that have had surgery to their heart or their lungs. Early on when I was still in high school, one of my best girlfriends, there were three of us, had a motorbike accident and ended up needing the ICU, and was in the ICU for a long time. That, IÕm sure, factored in and had an impact on my later decision to try to become a critical care physician to help people that find themselves in that situation. In the intensive care unit, some of these patients are with us for prolonged periods of times, and we actually get to know their families and their relatives and their loved ones. You really get to develop a relationship thatÕs personal with the patient, but also with the people that know the patient well. And thatÕs really, itÕs very powerful.