Hello and welcome back to ACRAC. I'm Jed Wolpa and we've got a great show for you today.

I have with me Dr. Matt Meyer who is an assistant professor of anesthesiology at UVA, that's

University of Virginia and he has done some really interesting work and gotten really interested in

health care's impact on health. And we'll talk about that but this is a little bit more that we

touched on before in a prior episode talking about the environmental impact of anesthesia but we're

going to come at it with Matt from a little bit more of a cycle thinking about how the environmental

impact of what we do actually has an effect on the systems we work in and how maybe those systems

can be changed to improve the overall impact that we're having. So I think it's going to be really

interesting. Matt is the founder or the co-founder of a company called Paryock Green LLC and we'll

talk about that and we'll just put that out there as a disclosure that obviously you'll hear more

about it but his company is involved in this space and so that may influence how you think about

what he has to say but I think it's going to be really interesting and certainly we're not selling

anything of Matt's and Nora I think is he's selling anything yet so anyway you'll hear about that

but Matt thank you so much for coming on the show. Thank you very much for having me this is a show

that I listen to very frequently so I feel honored to be among some of the guests and hope I mean

expectations. Awesome well thank you so why don't you start by telling us a little about you both

you know who you are how you got where you are what your practice looks like and we'll go from there.

All right well I'm an anesthesiologist and intensive care doctor I work in the operating rooms

at the University of Virginia as well as in the CT ICU I come from Vermont and I do think that

that has part as something to play with how I ended up doing research and working in the world

of sustainable health care I have a lot of fun spending time with my wife and my two children

spend a ton of time outdoors. A gardener I exercise try to run in the woods as frequently as I

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