Valentine’s Day may have turned thoughts to poetry, but ideas from interventional cardiologist Ankur Kalra, M.D., offer a new perspective.

Dr. Kalra, an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, studies broken-heart syndrome – otherwise known as stress cardiomyopathy. It’s a condition that has become more common during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A team of more than 20 College of Medicine students led by Nupur Goel, a third-year medicine student, organized the first TEDxNEOMED event, The Call to Heal: Healing Ourselves, Our Neighbors and Our World,” held Oct. 23, 2021.  At the inaugural TEDxNEOMED event, Dr. Kalra spoke about the healing role that poetry can play.

 The Science and the Art of a Broken Heart, Ankur Kalra, M.D., TEDxNEOMED