Hello and welcome back to ACRAC. I'm Jed Wollplaw and I'm really thrilled to have a really special

guest with me today. I have with me Dr. Maxime Kennisen who is a professor of anesthesiology and

the chair of the Department of anesthesiology at UCLA. Now Dr. Kennisen gave a really fascinating

grand rounds talk here at Hopkins a while back about artificial intelligence in anesthesiology.

And I just thought it was so interesting that I reached out to him and I said, you know,

can I talk you into coming on the show and he was so kind and agreed to do it. So I'm really

excited to talk with him today. First just a quick reminder, we have CME now available on ACRAC

through CMEFI, a great company that makes it really easy for you to get CME. So if you need it,

just go to the website at acrac.com and follow the links to get your CME credits. All right.

Dr. Kennisen, thank you so much for coming on the show. Thank you very much for inviting me, Jed.

Thank you. Good morning. Good morning. So let's start by just telling the audience a little about

you. You have a, I don't want to say a typical, because it was probably very typical for you, but

for a lot of people out there who don't really know much about training in other countries,

you kind of have that background. So talk a little bit about where you trained, how you trained,

what your careers looked like, and how you got where you are. Okay. So,

yes, I was, I was, first I was born and raised in France in Paris. I grew up in Paris.

I am the first, if you will, in my family, to be a physician. Nobody has ever been a physician in

my family. Actually, I'm the first generation to be a high school graduate. I chose to become

a physician in France. It's a different healthcare system. It's a single-payer system where

everybody has access to healthcare. Healthcare is considered to be a white. Everybody has access

to it. It's not a private edge. You don't have a multi, I mean, you have some private payers,

but everyone has a single-payer system to begin with. So I chose to be a physician in this kind

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