Dr Nicole Bowles (Sleep Research, Firefighter Schedules and American Healthcare) - 1108
Behind The Shield
James Geering
4.9 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Nicole Bowles, OHSU’s 2021 Women in Academic Health & Medicine Emerging Leader, and Assistant Professor in the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences at Oregon Health and Science University, received a BS in Chemistry with a minor in Mathematics at New York University and obtained her Ph.D. in Neuroendocrinology from The Rockefeller University. She then went on to obtain her MS in Clinical Epidemiology from Weill Cornell Medical College. Her research is supported by the Ford Foundation, an American Academy of Sleep Medicine Young Investigator Award, and the National Institutes of Health.
In this conversation, we discuss firefighter shift schedules, THC and sleep, the health and cognitive impacts of sleep deprivation and so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Team Builder, yet another company that's doing great things for the first responder community. |
| 0:07.0 | As a strength and conditioning coach myself who also trains tactical athletes, |
| 0:11.0 | dissemination of wellness information is one of the biggest challenges. |
| 0:16.0 | Now, TeamBuilder is the premier strength strength conditioning software for tactical athletes. |
| 0:23.8 | And there are several features that really impress me. |
| 0:29.7 | Firstly, there is a full exercise library, so you, the personal trainer, does not have to create that within your own department. |
| 0:32.1 | Secondly, you can send out programming, but also individualize, which I love. |
| 0:37.1 | So you blanket program for everyone. |
| 0:39.4 | Now you can tweak based on someone's injury, someone's need to maybe drop some body composition, |
| 0:45.0 | rather than having to write a program for every single person on their own. |
| 0:49.6 | TeamBuilder also allows you to build custom questionnaires to collate health and wellness data. It integrates |
| 0:55.7 | with wearables. And I think one of the most important things is obviously it tracks. To me, |
| 1:01.3 | it's imperative that we as a profession start tracking our people from day one and then over the full |
| 1:08.6 | span of their career, therefore catching potential wellness issues and injuries before they happen. |
| 1:16.0 | Now, if you want to try TeamBuilder, they are offering you, the audience of the Behind the Shield podcast, a free 14-day trial to experience all of the features. |
| 1:26.5 | And if you want to take a deeper dive into Team Builder, |
| 1:29.1 | listen to episode 132 with Melissa Macardo or go to team builder.com. And I'll spell that to you |
| 1:37.3 | because it's not as you think. T-E-A-M-B-U-I-L-D-R.com. Welcome to the Behind the Shield podcast. |
| 1:45.9 | As always, my name's James Gearing, and this week it is my absolute honor to welcome on the show, |
| 1:50.4 | researcher and associate professor, Dr. Nicole Bowles. |
| 1:55.4 | Now, in this conversation, we discuss a host of topics. |
| 1:58.7 | From the Firefighter Shift Schedule, the 1323, the chronic and acute |
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