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 this

interview, Boudakian explains why he became interested in this field

and why patient safety will be an important part of his career.