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16th Dec 2020

EvelChat #1 "The Doctor" A Chat with Dr. Scott Samlan

Welcome to EveltrakSport.com's new coaching podcast, EvelChat! In this first episode of EvelChat, Derek sits down for a one to one talk with Dr. Scott Samlan. Dr. Samlan is an emergency room physician and CEO of North West Indiana ER & Hospital. There he has been one of the front-line workers in the fight against Covid-19 for the past 6 months. 

Before that however, for 15 years he was an ER physician and Regional Director for a number of inner-city hospitals in Chicago, dealing with some of the hairiest, most professionally challenging experiences a doctor can face.

Derek and Scott discuss a number of issues around ER medicine and the crossover to coaching, including: what it's like to be an ER doctor and NW Indiana Hospital's unique approach to patient care, COVID-19, the second time they met, working within a bureaucracy, the personality types that get attracted to ER medicine (and coaching), high-stress management and the impact such "lifestyle" work has on their families.

See Dr. Samlan's full bio here

See Dr. Samlan on CNN here

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The EveltrakSport.com Coaching Podcast with Derek Evely
A Podcast about Coaching, from specialist turn-ons to general piss-offs… & everything in between.

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Derek Evely

Derek Evely has taken a career path unique in Olympic sport. As an athletics coach, he has coached professionally at all levels along the developmental continuum and is widely regarded as a foremost expert in both youth development programming and elite training methodology. As a coach he has produced three World Junior Championship medalists, two of whom went on to win Olympic medals. He was the development coach for Gary Reed (IAAF World Championships 800m Silver Medalist), Dylan Armstrong (Beijing Olympic Shot Put Bronze Medalist) and Sophie Hitchon (2016 Olympic Hammer Throw Bronze Medalist). He has been a national team coach for both Britain and Canada to every major championship on the global calendar including the Olympic Games, IAAF World Championships and European Championships. He was a High Performance Training Centre Director for British Athletics leading into the 2012 Olympic Games where he coached the youngest athlete on the British athletics team (Hitchon) to her first Olympic final. From 2005 to 2009 he was the Sport Science Manager for the Canadian Athletics Coaching Center. He consults and coaches with federations and individuals worldwide on all aspects of developmental and high performance programming. He currently lives in Chicago with his wife and three teenagers.