 Seven years ago, I sat in front of a young interviewee from the University of Iowa. His name was Acida. I'd never met anybody from Sri Lanka before. It was quite interesting. And I'm interviewing him to consider whether he should be part of our residency program in train and ear, nose, and throat head and neck at Vanderbilt. As I was looking in his eyes, I saw this amazing twinkle, this excitement. This is what I'm looking for when I interview people. He was just this creative spirit, this unbelievable desire to make a difference in the world that kind of set him apart. So I challenged Acida about three years ago when he was a young resident to help me to figure this out. Help me to set up a hearing screening program that would be so simple that it could be based on a cell phone that we could take community healthcare workers and go into the bush country of these countries where there's no audiologist, there's not enough ENT doctors to see them and discover all these children with hearing loss. If we could just give hearing to a five-year-old child, then we could radically change his life in the generations that follow. Now, I've challenged lots of residents to do things over the years and they have done some pretty impressive things, but Acida stands out beyond all of the rest. I think he has single-handedly done something that's going to change the world as far as hearing loss and make a difference in these low and middle-income countries. Well, he's got effervescent joy, effervescent positivity. He's infectious in his personality. If you're having a bad day and you get around Acida, your bad day goes away. He has this creative spirit that's constantly questioning what's around him. He never lets a question rest. And so it is just fun to be with him because where he loves learning, we're constantly learning together. We're constantly having fun. He takes the toughest situations and makes them enjoyable. Some people live their entire life doing their job but never making a difference in the world around them. I think what you all have done there is you have, along with his parents, molded him into someone whose passion is to make a difference in the world, whose passion is to be creative and make the world that he lives in a far better place because he's been there. The reason I work at Vanderbilt University in academic medicine is because I get to be around these genius young doctors and medical students. They inspire me in my life to keep going. And Acida is a special, special person. I'll start crying. Who has blessed my life?