Karl Suerig received a BS from Queens College in Chemistry and Mathematics, and an MD from NYU Bellevue Medical Center. After Internship and Residency at Greenwich Hospital, he graduated from the Aerospace Medical Center and became a Naval Flight Surgeon. He was involved with electronics at NASA in Houston, Texas. This led to his part in Cardiovascular Associates while practicing medicine in Greenwich. His involvement was in the Catheterization Laboratory and with pacemakers, implanting the first pacemaker in Spain. He then joined the original Emergency Physicians at the Greenwich Emergency Room from which he recently retired after 35 years. During those years, he also did construction and developing as the President of Ryewood Farms Ltd. He has designed several gardens and buildings and, in retirement, is enjoying woodworking and construction.