Hello and welcome back to Atkrak, I'm Jed Walpaw and I am thrilled to have an amazing guest with me today. Dr. Gina Blitz is an associate professor of anesthesiology at Duke University School of Medicine,

and she is also the current president for the Society for Parioperative Assessment and Quality

Improvement, which is known as Spaki, and we are going to talk about her real passion and

something I heard her give an incredible talk on which is really kind of new

frontier in perioperative assessment so a lot of out there, I'm sure you're hearing things

like should we be using biomarkers,

what kinds of things should we be doing

in terms of preparing people and really optimizing people

before their surgery?

And we have the real expert who's going to tell us all about

those things so I'm excited to continue to learn from her. Gina, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much. It is a real pleasure to be here. I've been looking forward to this.

And I have to admit, this has been one of my,

as I told you, life goals is to get on to the Act Rec

podcast and share a little more about what I love so much.

Well, that is fabulous, and I'm so glad you're here.

So let's jump right in.

First tell us a little bit about you.

What do your days look like, kind of how does your career play out right now?

Yeah, I appreciate that question because I have to admit, I'm an

anesthesiologist with a somewhat unique career path.

You know, given that I've spent more than a decade, you know, going a mile deep down into

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