About
I am an anesthesiologist and intensivist who spends as much time thinking about how care is delivered as delivering it. My clinical work is high acuity perioperative and ICU medicine. The rest of my time goes to the systems around it: schedules, staffing models, dashboards, and the workflows that decide whether a good team has a good day. The through line is simple to state and hard to do: build systems that let clinicians care better and live better.
Focus areas
Perioperative operations. OR utilization, block and case scheduling, capacity planning, and the governance that makes changes stick.
Scheduling systems. Modernizing physician and CRNA scheduling, including QGenda implementation and the rule design behind fair, sustainable staffing.
Clinical informatics. Turning operational data into decisions through KPI design, dashboards, and honest measurement.
AI-assisted operational tooling. Practical automation with validation layers, built for real clinical workflows rather than demos.
Selected work
Perioperative KPI dashboard. Built a leadership dashboard that pulls QGenda and LeanTaaS data into one operational view across roughly 17 metrics.
CRNA daily assignment tool. Designed a daily assignment workflow with an AI validation layer that checks assignments before they reach the floor.
Scheduling modernization. Leading QGenda implementation and board-level scheduling and governance work for an academic anesthesia group.
Perioperative Center of Excellence. Co-chair of innovation efforts; past service on an iQueue Anesthesia Advisory Board.
Background
Board certified in Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, and Neurocritical Care.
Residency: Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Fellowships: University of Washington and Oregon Health & Science University.
Current: Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, a Level I trauma center.
Writing
Occasional essays on anesthesia, critical care, and system design, from ventilation mechanics to the economics of flip rooms. Read them at jaceperkerson.substack.com.
Contact
Email is the fastest way to reach me: [email protected]. I am also on LinkedIn and WhatsApp.