I've spent nearly 20 years working alongside some of the most dedicated people in emergency medicine across @MassGenBrigham. Yesterday, David Brown announced that I'll be stepping into the role of Chair of Emergency Medicine for the system. The first thing I want to say is thank you. Thank you to David, Ron Walls, and Mike VanRooyen, who didn't just lead this enterprise-wide department. They built it. You all mentored a generation of emergency physicians and created the foundation I'm now privileged to build on. We wouldn't be here without your leadership. And thank you to the incredible teams across our 10 emergency departments: the physicians, nurses, APPs, techs, coordinators, and staff at Martha's Vineyard Hospital, Nantucket Cottage Hospital, Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, Faulkner Hospital, Salem Hospital, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Mass Eye and Ear, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Mass General Hospital. Some of you I know as well as my own family because I've spent years working alongside you. Others I haven't even had the chance to meet yet. But I'm looking forward to getting to know each of you better because I know that you all deliver extraordinary care on the hardest days. You're the reason our system works, and you're the reason I'm so excited about what's ahead. My first shift as an attending was in the old BWH ED. Since then, I've had the chance to grow through this system, taking on increasingly senior leadership roles and learning to lead by working alongside extraordinary people during some genuinely difficult stretches. Together, we've worked through H1N1, the Marathon bombing, the opioid crisis, and COVID. Those experiences gave me perspective, but it's the people I've worked with who give me purpose. I won't pretend emergency medicine isn't facing real challenges: workforce pressures, boarding, systemic strain, and others. But I've seen how well our team performs under pressure, and I believe the best solutions will come from all of us as we work together to find them. My job as Chair is to support the people who show up every day and do this work, and to fight for what they need to keep doing it well. This next chapter is ours. Let's get to work.