I was interested in finding an internship at the Houston medical center because of my interest in biomedical engineering and my background as a volunteer in a laparoscopic/robotic research program at the medical center during my middle school years. During that project I was taught how to do actual surgery. I decided to contact Professor Ioannis Pavlidis at the Computational Physiology Lab at the University of Houston because he was one of the principle investigators of my middle school project at MITIE: Houston Methodist Institute for Technology, Innovation & Education. Read more about the University of Houston Computational Physiology Lab: http://cpl.uh.edu Read more about Houston Institute for Technology, Innovation & Education MITIE: http://www.houstonmethodist.org/for-health-professionals/department-programs/mitie Professor Pavlidis helped me connect with my to-be boss, Professor Mark Garbey, who works at the Methodist Hospital, Center for Computational surger...