Dr. Jamie Coleman is an acute care surgeon, Associate Professor of Surgery and Vice-Chair in the Department of Surgery at the University of Louisville. As an acute care surgeon, she specializes in trauma, emergency general surgery and surgical critical care.

She completed her general surgery residency in Chicago at Cook County Hospital and Rush University and her trauma and surgical critical care fellowship in Atlanta at Grady Memorial Hospital with Emory University. Her current clinical research is focused on the physiologic impact of sleep deprivation, stress, and burnout amongst surgeons.  She is the PI for the SuPer Trial (Surgeon Performance Trial), the largest study of continuous physiologic monitoring of acute care surgeons.  Her groundbreaking work in sleep deprivation and stress in physicians has led to an entire new field of research.

She is also a medical media expert, public speaker, avid writer and blogger.  She, and her work, have been featured in Forbes, Huffington Post, Glamour magazine, and US News and World Report.

In this podcast Dr. Coleman talks about her journey of becoming a surgeon, the importance of decompression and some methods that she herself uses, the influences of her family and background on her current path, waste within the medical industry, and advice to children hoping to join the medical field.

White Coat Story is a podcast series for school students to gain first-person insights into the practice of medicine, and what it takes to get there.