Fresh Flow Podcast
The Fresh Flow podcast is a collaboration between UAB Medicine and the Association of Anesthesia Clinical Directors (AACD). Podcast guests and discussions are aligned with the AACD’s stated mission of leveraging unique perspectives to improve perioperative operational processes.
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- Sep 1, 2026
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Charles W. “Chuck” Whitten, M.D. : Grace and Grit: Recruiting the Next Generation of Academic Anesthesiologists (opens the original)
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Dr. Charles W. “Chuck” Whitten, M.D. discusses the future of the specialty — from predictive analytics and remote patient monitoring to AI-assisted care — and what it means for staffing, supervision, and clinical practice. This is a focused conversation on recruitment, culture change, and the “grace and grit” qualities Dr. Whitten looks for when building a modern academic department — plus tactics to retain millennials and Gen Z clinicians.
Jarrett Heard, M.D., MBA : The Blind Side: The Obstacle is the Way (opens the original)
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In this conversation Jarrett Heard, M.D., MBA shares how a scoring algorithm combining patient comorbidities and surgical risk can direct the right patients to the right preop pathway — reducing redundancy, unnecessary travel, and last‑minute cancellations. He walks through the development and deployment of an Epic‑embedded predictive tool that triages surgical patients to virtual screening versus in‑person preop clinics — and why that matters for safety, access, and cost.
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