Andy Saia, Tech Director

What’s one of your favorite memories of Level Ex?

There are so many things that I've gotten to do at Level Ex that I would've never gotten to do at a different company. We went to Northwestern Hospital where doctors showed us how to do procedures on mannequins. I went to Germany and looked at brain scanning technology and different devices representing the state of the art in brain surgery. Or, getting to work on grants like the NASA proposal—I never thought I'd be working on something for NASA in my entire life.

Elsa Varghese, Manager, Medical Team

What’s it like collaborating with the game development team?

Working with game designers and looking into the psychology of what makes a great game—then working with developers and finding out how they actually implement what I'm talking about or what I envision that our physician experts would like—that's incredible.

Victoria Perizes, Senior Biomedical Solutions Specialist

What unique problems do you encounter working on medical video games?

Here you have to think, “What does it look like if you APC [use Argon Plasma Coagulation on] the tissue for too long? Or at what point does the person die because you APC there for too long?” You usually think about it from the patient safety perspective. You wouldn't even think about the issues of doing something too long, as it is just too dangerous. So the interesting challenge in interfacing with a software engineer is to recreate that in our games—to take that idea and translate it in a sensitive way.