 When I was a surgery resident, I was first exposed and learned about the Texas Heart Institute and Baylor in Houston. What a storied past. It seemed a world away to me at the time. And now I'm so excited that I can actually be a part of both those great institutions in their future. I think it probably was brainwashed from my mother. She used to get me a doctor's bag or a stethoscope for Christmas when I was three or four years old. So I think it started with that, but I think what really got me interested in surgery specifically was working in the trauma unit in Detroit at Detroit receiving Hospital. It was a incredible experience taking care of people with all sorts of injuries and all sorts of surgical problems. Cardiothoracic surgery then evolved as probably the highest level of surgery that was offered, the most intense care for the patients and biggest opportunity to impact a patient and their outcome. I did my cardiothoracic surgical training at Stanford in California and at that time everyone on the faculty had been trained at Stanford. It was a great experience in that everyone did everything exactly the same way. But you know, there's always an impact of getting an outside influence that not necessarily can turn the system upside down but add some tweaks here and there that can potentially move things forward.