Living the Mission NUPUR GOEL ’17
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ilmour alumni find many ways in their postGilmour lives to live our school mission “to develop the competence to see and the courage to act in creating a more humane and just society.”
Nupur Goel ’17 is no exception. Goel, a current medical student at Northeast Ohio Medical University, found a unique way to live our mission in the midst of a pandemic and other global crises.
LIVING WITH ZEAL
You launched and ran a TEDx talk at NEOMED. Can you explain what your talk was about? I organized and hosted the first-ever TEDxNEOMED event at my medical school, the Northeast Ohio Medical University. The theme of our inaugural event was “The Call to Heal: Healing Ourselves, Our Neighbors, And Our World.” Too often, our culture has exclusively attributed healing to the medical field. While the connection between healing and medicine is important, healing can also refer to amending and transcending aspects of our own lives, the lives of those around us, and our societal institutions. As a future physician, I have devoted my life to acting as a healer in my professional community. However, as a current medical student, I could not turn a blind eye to the injustices in my personal community. In the face of a global pandemic and political unrest, our world needs healing now more than ever before. I wanted to provide a space for members of my community to discuss these global issues and propose solutions. During the event, the TEDx speakers shared their definitions of what it means to “heal.” I introduced each talk and encouraged the audience to listen with an open mind and heart. The talks ranged from learning how to live from the dying, to embracing the imperfections of one’s journey, and even how a “Parkour mindset” can help create positive microcultures.
