Greetings future leader in family medicine!  I’m William L. Miller, MD, MA, but better known as “Will.”  I graduated from Wake Forest University with honors, earned a master's degree in medical anthropology, and received my medical degree from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in 1977. I completed a family medicine residency at Harrisburg Hospital in 1981 where I was also co-chief resident. I then entered private practice in Bethlehem, Pa. for four years honing the craft before joining the family medicine faculty at the University of Connecticut where I served as director of pre-doctoral education, residency director, and director of fellowship programs. I returned home to Pennsylvania and the Lehigh Valley in 1994 to help establish the innovative Lehigh Valley Family Medicine Residency Program, home of the Tools of Turtle Craft, and a new department of family medicine at LVHN. I was department Chair from 1998-2016 and was the first Leonard Parker Pool Endowed Chair of Family Medicine. My research activities include more than 30 years of observing, implementing, and evaluating NIH-funded national primary care practice improvement efforts along with investigations of healing relationships and the clinical encounter, collaborative care, and professional socialization. A special joy has been being one of the pioneers of qualitative and mixed-method research approaches in primary care and being a founding consulting editor for the Annals of Family Medicine.  I also received, along with my long-time collaborator, Ben Crabtree, the 2014 Curtis G. Hames Research Award for lifetime achievement in family medicine scholarship. I was an advisor and evaluator for the American Academy of Family Physicians’ Future of Family Medicine National Demonstration Project of the patient-centered medical home and the American Board of Family Medicine-funded national family medicine residency redesign initiative. I recently served on the Board of Directors for the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and currently work with the Larry A. Green Center to both understand and promote the value of generalism in primary care.  My special joys are family, getting lost in the woods with my grandson, cross-country skiing, and music.