dr. phillip pizzo, i hope i correctly pronounced that. who is the chair of the iom report that i just referenced here. dr. pizzo is joining us from stanford university why he is a professor at the department. dr. pizzo will focus on the iom report and future areas of research. next we have dr. william maxnor, would you come up to the witness table, please, and same with ms. beasley and dr. serno. there you go. we welcome dr. william maxnor. he is at the university of north carolina at chapel hill. dr. maxnor comes today with significant experience in pain management research. christian beasley, the executive director of the national association will share with us her personal story with chronic pain, she was appointed to serve on the pain research coordinating committee at nih, the committee was formed to coordinator research. and next we have dr. john serno a professor at new york university medical center and practitioner at rusk rehabilitation medicine. the author of four books a pain will share his work with respect to treating chronic