My name is Benjamin Levy, and I'm a gastroenterologist at the University of Chicago. Gastroenterology is a great specialty. We can prevent colon cancer by performing screening colonoscopies and removing polyps before they turn into cancer. We also get to treat patients that have a wide range of medical problems, such as abdominal pain or severe heartburn or rectal bleeding, liver disease issues, anything really to do with digestion. Initially, I decided to become a doctor after my grandfather passed away of lung cancer when I was nine years old. And through the years, I thought about several different specialties, and I chose gastroenterology because the opportunity to prevent cancer, to also hopefully diagnose cancers early and to help patients and families get through difficult times, and to help patients navigate care within a health care system, and also for the opportunities to teach the future generation of doctors and to work on public health projects. I chose the University of Chicago Medicine because of the opportunity to work with some of the top gastroenterologists in the country. I had an opportunity during my last year of training at LSU in New Orleans, my third year, I was selected as a fellow, visiting fellow through the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation, and I had the opportunity to spend a month here working with some of the top ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease physicians in the country. I was super impressed with their ability to take care of patients, their research, and I've always thought it would be a great opportunity to practice medicine here one day. I've had several unique opportunities since becoming a gastroenterologist. I was selected to be in the American College of Gastroenterology's Young Physician Leadership Scholars Program, and I also started a national health education campaign called Tune It Up, a concert to raise colon cancer awareness that I helped to organize with the American College of Gastroenterology, which featured music celebrities such as Lisa Loeb, Rufus Wainwright, Tim Reynolds, the Chicago Symphony, the Cincinnati Pops. Katie Couric even delivered a PSA. And we're continuing to organize these concerts each March during Colon Cancer Awareness Month in order to encourage our country, everyone that's eligible to get screening colonoscopies, 45 and older to get screened in order to try to prevent colon cancer nationally.