{"681737":{"#nid":"681737","#data":{"type":"news","title":"From Tragedy to Transformation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs Nuri Jeong lay on the pavement of Northside Drive, pinned down by the weight of a Chevy Suburban, a thought shouted from her subconscious, \u201cI\u2019ve got to save my brain!\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt was April 2022, one year before her PhD defense. She\u2019d been crossing the street near her apartment when the young driver turned right while looking left.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHe never saw me,\u201d says Jeong, at the time a member of Annabelle Singer\u2019s lab in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. \u201cThe next thing I know, I\u2019m on the ground looking up at the sky. I was fully conscious the whole time.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWorried about brain damage, she lifted her arm up just to see if she could do it. Her arm was fine. So was her brain. But there was 6,000 pounds of SUV on her leg. She had tire marks on her body. The driver\u2019s little brother leapt out from the passenger side to check on Jeong and she remembered that he was crying.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI realized this was just as traumatic for them as it was for me,\u201d says Jeong, who remained calm throughout the ordeal partly because the boy\u2019s tears had triggered something deep within her. Jeong conjured empathetic superpowers she\u2019d acquired in a compassion-based meditation program at Emory. That kept her tranquil through the pain.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe accident left her with broken bones in her shattered leg, requiring surgery and months of physical therapy. Today she can climb flights of stairs with no problem. Nonetheless, the accident left its mark, inspiring a career path that she never really expected.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/news\/tragedy-transformation?utm_source=newsletter\u0026amp;utm_medium=email\u0026amp;utm_content=Full%20Story\u0026amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Digest%20-%20April%2011%2C%202025\u0022\u003ERead the full story here \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENeuroscientist and former BME grad student Nuri Jeong is helping to reshape lives and careers.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Neuroscientist and former BME grad student Nuri Jeong is helping to reshape lives and careers."}],"uid":"35575","created_gmt":"2025-04-11 14:47:59","changed_gmt":"2025-05-20 19:24:03","author":"adavidson38","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-04-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-04-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"676816":{"id":"676816","type":"image","title":"Nuri.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003ENuri Jeong turned a terrible car accident into a life changing opportunity to refocus her career aspirations and personal goals.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1744382890","gmt_created":"2025-04-11 14:48:10","changed":"1744382890","gmt_changed":"2025-04-11 14:48:10","alt":"Nuri Jeong turned a terrible car accident into a life changing opportunity to refocus her career aspirations and personal goals.","file":{"fid":"260660","name":"Nuri.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/04\/11\/Nuri.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/04\/11\/Nuri.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":76645,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/04\/11\/Nuri.jpg?itok=VyU_4YHb"}}},"media_ids":["676816"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/news\/when-less-more-how-inhibition-shapes-learning","title":"When Less is More: How Inhibition Shapes Learning"}],"groups":[{"id":"66220","name":"Neuro"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"172970","name":"go-neuro"},{"id":"187423","name":"go-bio"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193656","name":"Neuro Next Initiative"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter: \u003C\/strong\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia contact:\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kelly.petty@bme.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKelly Petty\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003ECommunications\u003Cbr\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["kelly.petty@bme.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}