Hello and welcome back to AckRack. I'm Jed Wolplot and I've got a special treat for you today.

We are going to play for you the live episode that we did at the Anesthesiology Annual Meeting in San Francisco just this past weekend.

Here it goes. Enjoy.

All right. Shall we do it? Hello everyone and welcome back to AckRack. I'm Jed Wolplot and I am so excited to be here live at ASA in San Francisco at the annual meeting.

It's always so fun to have this opportunity every year to be here in front of a live audience. Thank you all for coming.

I am very, very excited to have two incredible guests with me and I'm going to introduce them in a minute.

But first I want to say a couple of words of thank you and a couple announcements first to all of you.

Let's hear it for being here live so we can try to get that on tape.

Thank you so much. We are going to have this recorded and it will be released both on the AckRack feed and the ASA central line podcast feed.

So check it out in the coming weeks or anyone who wasn't able to make it. You can tell them that they'll be able to get it there.

I want to say a huge thank you to the AckRack team who have done an incredible job over the past year with our social media and helping out with all that makes AckRack what it is.

So I don't know if any of them are here but Brian Park, April Luce, Sonia Aminot, Chris Reese and Sophia Wu.

Anybody here? If so, there we go. There's Sonia. All right. Give them a round of applause.

And Maureen Gagan and her team are here from ASA and we wouldn't be here or able to do this if it wasn't for them. So thank you Maureen.

All right. I think those are the things we wanted to announce. So let me introduce our two amazing guests.

And the format for today is going to be this. I will spend about 15 minutes with each of them and then we're going to open it up to all of you.

So think about any questions that you have either already or as we talk that come up because we will invite all of you at the end and we should have a solid 20 to 30 minutes for you all to come up.

Please do come to the mic so that we have that on tape and ask any questions of either guest or me that you have.

So first I have with me, Dr. Deb Cully. Dr. Cully is the chair of anesthesiology and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Anesthesiology.

She's a neuroanesthesiologist and she is known across the world for her research on the effect of anesthesia on cognition.

She's done a huge amount of work on this and is really well known and is going to teach us a lot today.

She also has a big probably several, but at least one big talk coming up on Tuesday, where she'll talk more about it.

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