Today's interview is the second in our series from Telluride, Colorado where host Lakshman Swamy attended the inspiring Telluride Patient Safety Roundtable. The TPSR brings health professionals in training together to learn how to become champions for patient safety. This interview features Chris Boudakian, an osteopathic physician training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) at New York University. He is training to be a "physiatrist," a physician focused on the long-term restoration of function and treatment of pain in patients debilitated by illness such as stroke and trauma. In thisinterview, Boudakian explains why he became interested in this field and why patient safety will be an important part of his career.