When you think of technology and neurosurgery, they go hand in hand. Technology has been utilized in neurosurgery from the early get-go. The areas that we're operating on the brain the spinal cord they're very delicate structures that require, you know, the utmost respect of their anatomy. For neurosurgery, I think, robotics is the future. We can very precisely remove a brain tumor or fix an aneurysm or remove a vascular malformation in the brain, minimizing any kind of damage to surrounding brain tissue, optimizing patient outcomes. So, I definitely got into medicine first and foremost due to my mom. She was a nurse. Back when I was a young kid, she tried to get me to go volunteering at the hospital where she worked at. So, that kind of got me into the whole medical world and, even as a young kid, I was instantly hooked. Neurosurgery was that specialty that, you know, had me at hello. I instantly loved it because it was taking care of patients, having a keen understanding of the nervous system and then getting to use your hands to actually, physically fix your patients rather than just prescribing medications or something. So, kind of put everything together that I loved. Dr. Yu and Dr. Williamson are two of our faculty who have shown great enthusiasm for using robotics in the operating room and, with training under them, they've really pushed me and they've pushed all the other residents to be engaged and understanding of these things very early on so that, by the time that we're finished or entering our careers on our own at the end of seven years, that we already have a comfort level with robotic surgery compared to maybe other residents across the country. The types of robotics that we use in our practice now are spinal and cranial robotics. We have the Mazor X which is the robot that we use for spine and we have the Synaptive, which is an exoscope which also has a robotic arm that we use. The Synaptive, we use for in a combination with spine and cranial surgery. We have robotics in our microscopes that allow us to, you know, look at diseases inside the brain at angles that we were never able to achieve before. I can tell exactly where I'm at in the patient's brain. I can focus on a certain area of interest — for instance, a brain tumor or a brain aneurysm — without having to manipulate the microscope myself. We're able to use precision with every single thing that we do when we're fixing a broken spine or fixing a patient with terrible back pain. What does the future hold for AHN and technology? I think further integration. The exciting thing about AHN is because we are early adopters of new technology, that the next generation of trainees here, they're going to have access to things that I didn't have access to during my training. Robotics is definitely here to stay. My biggest takeaway is to try to get comfortable with it as early and soon in your career as possible so that you have an excellent foundation going forward for when you're out on your own making the decision of using robotics and knowing how to use them. We're training the next generation to do even better than we're doing now, which is outstanding.