Explore Research at the University of Florida: Dr. Kelly Foote, a neurosurgeon in the UF Center for Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration, explains how he first became interested in medicine as a teenager, but no one in his family had ever attended college. His older brother studied engineering in college, and Dr. Foote followed in his footsteps, using engineering as a path to medical school. In medical school he became fascinated with the complexity of the human brain and chose neurosurgery as his specialty. He now applies his engineering background in solving neurosurgical problems to ultimately help his patients.
