Virgil is the co-founder of Medical Avatar, a health company that creates visual representations to help patients better understand their health information. Virgil is also a visual artist working with concepts in medicine and technology and has exhibited interactive installations, films, paintings, drawings, and prints in galleries and museums around the world.

In this interview, Virgil shares why he went blindfolded for a week in his childhood, how a family medical crisis gave rise to Medical Avatar, and how he has balanced a life and career between the arts and medicine. We explore the mental models and practices that Virgil has adopted, and at the end of the interview he turns the tables and asks me about the same.