He and his wife have four grown children and nine grandchildren. Working with Robert M. Nerem, director of the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience at Tech, and Gary B. Schuster, dean of the College of Sciences, Ridley invites medical doctors who have Tech degrees to return to campus and see firsthand some of the technological advances that support modern medicine. It used to be, Ridley said, that when other physicians asked him where he received his pre-med education and he told them Georgia Tech, his answer would raise a few eyebrows in surprise. Nowadays, because of the expanding role technology is playing in modern medicine, that reaction is far less common, he said. There is a lot of enthusiasm about pre-medical education with a technical background.
Technology figures so much in research and in surgery.
I have appreciated that constantly.