of Anesthesia
Clinical Directors
Innovate.
Collaborate.
Our Purpose
The Association of Anesthesia Clinical Directors is focused on providing anesthesia and perioperative professionals with leadership tools, operational frameworks, and novel approaches relevant to the entire health spectrum. The business of operating room management – including OR efficiency, productivity and cost containment – is a vital skill for the survival of the anesthesia profession. AACD membership provides an opportunity to tackle common challenges, develop additional leadership and organizational skills, network with other clinical directors to share ideas, and hear from experts in the field who can provide insights that impact the perioperative space as a whole.
Core Values
- Leveraging collective leadership talents by fostering collaboration and cross-pollination of all stakeholder groups.
- Transforming lives through an enduring commitment to patient safety.
- Being a force for positive change through pioneering innovation and invention.
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 present unique perspectives to improving perioperative operational processes. Fresh Flow takes listeners beyond the basic science and clinical application conversations to explore timely, thought-provoking topics that impact anesthesiology and perioperative medicine, both now and in the future.
Overcoming Addiction: Empathy, Compassion, and Love
This episode explores whether physicians can sustain sobriety while maintaining clinical responsibilities and why supportive systems matter for patient safety and clinician recovery. Guest: Christopher Godlewski, M.D., MSHA, shares lessons from his own recovery, the structure of Physicians Health Programs, and how to navigate licensing, drug testing, and aftercare.
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In Collaboration with the NORA Society
AACD is proud to collaborate with the NORA Society, an organization working together to enhance patient safety, quality of care, and education in Non-Operating Room Anesthesia. As anesthesia care continues to expand beyond the traditional operating room, our shared commitment to operational excellence helps advance safe, efficient care wherever patients are treated.
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