A clinical associate professor of emergency medicine at Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center, Jess Osterman never expected to be on the front lines of a global pandemic, even as the coronavirus started to spread across the U.S. in early March.
In fact, when she enrolled at North Carolina in 1999 and joined the women's lacrosse team, she wasn't even thinking of pursuing a career in health care. She instead planned to be an FBI agent.
"I had grown up in a very legally-oriented family, and I thought that was what I was going to do," Osterman told GoHeels.