Hello, and welcome back to ACRAC. I'm Jed Wolfaw, and I am thrilled to have with me today,

Dr. John Fiatjo, who is the associate in Necesities and Chiefs at Boston Children's Hospital

in Boston. And I heard John give a really interesting talk about behavioral economics. And

you may be thinking, well, great, but what does that have to do with anesthesiology? But

that's the best part is that John has really taken an interest in this and how it applies

to our work in anesthesiology. And he's going to talk a little bit with us about that

today. So, John, thank you so much for coming on the show.

Jed, I'm super excited to be here. I've always wanted to be on a podcast, so this is great.

Thanks for having me. Well, I'm thrilled that ACRAC is your first. So, let's start with you. Tell

us a little bit about your background, kind of how you ended up where you are in terms of your

career. And then also, of course, how you got interested in this field of behavioral economics.

Yeah, so I started out as an engineering undergrad who then decided, mainly probably because of

peer pressure, because I went to Johns Hopkins University. Everybody there's pretty met. I ended

up going to medical school at Northwestern and I wanted to be a urologist and there's a long

story of how I ended up in anesthesia, but then wanted to focus on pediatric anesthesia. I did my

fellowship training at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia and stayed on there for about 16 years

and just recently made the transition to Boston Children's Hospital, which has been quite exciting.

One of the big things is now I have to become a Red Soxeter Patriotist fan.

My friends in Philadelphia are not too excited about. So, yeah, I'm a pediatric focused

individual. Yeah, I've been doing pediatric anesthesia for a while now.

That's great. And I did not know about the Hopkins connection, but that's fun that you were

an undergrad at Hopkins. It does feel like a lot of focus in the undergrad year on the pre-med

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