Reinvent Yourself, with Nimmi Ramanajum

5 Minute Mentor

Subscribe on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | YouTube

Nimmi Ramanujam is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. As a student, Nimmi was diagnosed with cervical cancer. This experience led her to develop a portable cervical cancer screening device and work on improving women’s health. Nimmi is also a professional musician since a very young age.

https://media.blubrry.com/5minutementor/5minutementor473546891.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/19-nimmi-vie-short-music.mp3

Transcript:

ES: This is 5 minute mentor, a podcast where you’ll get advice from prominent authors, researchers, engineers, artists, and more, in 5 minutes or less.

ES: Today’s mentor is Nimmi Ramanujam, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University.

ES: As a student, Nimmi was diagnosed with cervical cancer. This experience led her to develop a portable cervical cancer screening device and work on improving women’s health. Nimmi is also a professional musician since a very young age.

ES: This is their advice.

NR: My personal view is You’re not just defined by your day job. You can choose to do other things that make you fulfilled. And I think we live in a world now where it’s so important to reinvent ourselves and to imagine possibilities that perhaps you know, are not in our consciousness right now. And, I feel that it’s so important to catalyze change but you don’t have to be a certain type of person to do that, and in fact, you can reinvent yourself over and over again to essentially be of service to society.

Nimmi Ramanujam, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University