Hello, and welcome back to ACREC. I'm Jed Wollpa and we have a fantastic show for you today.

I have with me, Dr. Matt Wixen, who is an assistant professor of anesthesiology at the University of Michigan.

He's also the associate chair for diversity and the director of radar.

And I'm going to let him tell you what radar is, but Matt, I'm excited to have you on the show.

Thanks so much for making the time. Thanks for having me, Jed.

I'm excited to talk to you. So let's start with you. Tell us a little bit about you,

how you got where you are, what your practice looks like, and then tell us what radar is,

and how you got into the idea of starting this. Yeah, absolutely. So I'm a Michigan

through and through. I was born and raised in a little farm town south of the capital,

called Concord, Michigan. One of seven kids. I am the middle child, the only person who ended up

in medicine, but really, really big family. And then I went to Hope College in Holland,

Michigan, on the shores of Lake Michigan, which is a near and dear to my heart. I sit on the

board of trustees there, and really my life trajectory changed there. I met my wife,

decided to become a doctor, and kind of cracked on from that. After I graduated from Hope back in 2008,

I went to the University of Michigan Medical School, where I graduated in 2012,

stayed on for residency and anesthesiology, and then did a pain fellowship. I like to joke that

my practice. I did the pain fellowship and then retired immediately from pain clinic.

I love the fellowship. I had amazing experience learned a lot, but just realized I'm not a clinic

guy. So I do get to do a lot of acute pain, which is really fantastic. And I'm on the orthopedic

and ambulatory anesthesia team. So I do a lot of blocks, catheters, thin care, high level athletes,

which is a ton of fun. And then the rest of my time is spent working on diversity issues within

our department and medical student resident education, which are really the things that make me come

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