 She has practiced medicine for about 40 years, and she's also been quite a trailblazer throughout her professional life. She came to Chicago, as I said, and was a resident at the University of Chicago, one of the top hospitals in Chicago. But she later began a career in emergency medicine. And at the time that Ardina began her emergency medicine career, the specialty of emergency medicine was in its infancy. Ardina and several of her cohorts established the emergency medicine program there, and it became a model for the country, and it is a place where many of the emergency medicine specialists around the country were trained. She is cool, calm, and collected. She's probably one of the most organized and interesting people you'll ever meet. She's actually been someone who I could always count on to give me advice and to tell it to me straight. She's one of those people who is very colorful in her approach to things and that she has a terrific sense of humor, but she is also someone who is very serious and level-headed and will always give you the best of advice. She's also someone who is just an amazingly hard worker. Ardina gained a lot of admiration from me when she undertook to begin working on her Masters in Business Administration at the University of Chicago. While she was an attending physician at Cook County Hospital, Ardina has been a stalwart in encouraging and facilitating the matriculation of young African Americans in the medical field. She's been a fantastic professional in her career choice. She's also, I think, taken the foundation that is provided at a strong liberal arts school like Gustavus and translated that into a kind of discipline that I think is just the winning hand for getting through the rigors of medical training. I think also her focus is results, frankly, of having been the only black woman student at Gustavus while she was there. And to make lemonade out of lemons, I think she used her, what she probably would describe as social isolation, as a means of focus. I asked Ardina at one point, did she ever feel as though she was handled differently if she faced particular challenges as a woman and a black person in the program? And she told me, frankly, no. She said that because they were all pioneers in emergency medicine and establishing that type of program, that they also all became peers.