[MUSIC PLAYING] Hi. My name is Steve Handoyo. I am in the section of allergy immunology. And we do a wide variety of things. In our typical clinic day, we'll see infants, newborns. We'll see college kids. We'll see parents, grandparents, the elderly.

So our bread and butter will start with things like asthma, allergic rhinitis, and eczema. But we really the go all the way out to food allergy, insect allergy, drug allergy. And the immunology portion are things like immunodeficiency.

I recall my earliest exposure to medicine, probably as a son of a physician. My father was a physician. And it just struck me how much people used to call their doctors at home back then, and they would chat with me and just take time out to tell me how much my father meant to them. He really was able to cultivate a relationship with these families for decades.

And as I grew older, I had a couple of passions. Like, in college, I ended up being an English major and a biology major. And medicine, far more than I could ever imagine, really became the crossroads of those two things.

I was in private practice for eight years, and I had a wonderful practice throughout Chicagoland. We had locations throughout the city, and I had a wonderful staff and patients. But as we went along those eight years, I kept talking about potential things we could do for patients, things that we hoped we could do for them but wasn't always able to offer that to them.

I was, honestly, blessed to be able to come to the University of Chicago, work with some colleagues and friends I'd known before and come to a place that is truly compassionate, so the section of allergy immunology. We can offer patients all those things, or many of those things. Sorry. We can offer them many of those things that we'd hoped to offer them-- that I'd hope to offer them in private practice.

My philosophy of care really focuses on me listening, initially, and hearing what brings the patients in but also, as we talk about their stories, a lot of times, deeper, deeper concerns or deeper interests come shining through.

So for me, I pride myself-- oftentimes in a clinic visit, I will say, I don't have a specific algorithm. I don't have a bunch of tests that I'll run on every family or every patient. It really depends on each patient's interest and concerns.

And so I don't know, when I walk into a room, what tests we may or may not run. I love, in a clinic visit, when we don't do any testing and we say, you know what? We're going to talk about things. And I have some things I want you to look out for. And then, when you come back next time, we'll have a better idea of what we should test for and what treatments we can offer.

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