Mingling genetic engineering, personalized medicine, intelligent devices and advanced software, the future requires diligent preparation, but most importantly a clear dialogue between different industries that often fail to maximize their symbiotic potentials.

Assume for a second you need to go to a bank and interact with a teller. How would you respond if the teller wrote down your information and then advised you that she needed to go get your paper file? What would you do if moments later the teller returns to inform you that she is unable to locate your bank chart, and that she thinks it's on loan to another department? When given the option of coming back another day or only having minor adjustments done, would you choose the former or the later? Finally if the bank next door had everything done electronically, would you contemplate transferring there?

From an economic and social perspective, medicine is a peculiar industry where somehow the rules that govern it go counter to what one would expect in almost all other industries. Note the above example, and compare to what modern medicine has to offer; while the world is entering and adapting to the information age, physicians are still struggling to enter the computer age. How is it possible that an industry that consumes a significant percentage of GDP still heavily relies on pen and paper for documentation?

This is the world we live in now. I will let you decide what should be more frightening: that medicine is woefully under-equipped for its present tasks, or the aging population who, in under a generation, will require care that will bankrupt our resources.

My Ambition

To be one of the first pioneers to establish a "neo-medicine." It is my training in both medicine and engineering, along with a long-standing ability of understanding both the many strengths and weaknesses of technology, that allow me to thrive on the path taking modern medicine to its next generation. However, to simply suggest that technology will be medicine's salvation is naive and even reckless. Ultimately, the challenge is finding intelligent and efficient technologies that can ally with modern medicine.

"Just because you build something, doesn't mean it's going to be used"