I grew up in Moscow, the youngest of a family of five. My father died, untimely, when he was very young. My mother worked very hard, and my upbringing largely fell on the shoulders of my older brother. He had a PhD in chemistry and was a role model for us, his younger siblings. Yet, our mother insisted we both go to medical school. We obliged. My middle brother became a dentist, and I became a neonatologist. In 1992, our family moved to the United States. In 1997, I became a licensed MD and in 2013, I added an MBA to my title.