# @elilillyco on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2022-11-11T14:00:41.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Eli Lilly and Company (@elilillyco) — https://gondola.cc/elilillyco

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#WeAreLilly - 37,000 global employees #PoweredbyPurpose 

“I joined the Navy nurse corps two months after graduating from Indiana University. I was stationed at Naval Hospital Bethesda, now named Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., then called up for Desert Storm/Desert Shield in 1990. I was on the United States Naval Ship Comfort in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Saudi Arabia. The USNS Comfort was vital in providing surgical and acute medical care to military forces. I worked in triage, critical care and assisted with surgical procedures.

I come from a military family. My role in the Navy allowed me to treat patients from the US Marine Corps, whom I respect, and the great men and women of the sea.

The Navy taught me not only to be a nurse to the patients but to be their family as well. Patients were away from home, in a hospital, facing inconceivable medical emergencies. Everyone pulled together and became family and advocates for the patients.

After the Navy, I returned to Indianapolis as a nurse at Methodist Hospital, but Lilly was my goal. When I was a child, we drove by Lilly, and I always said, 'I want to work at Lilly.' I joined the company in the sales division focusing on a medicine that treated sepsis. It was the chance of a lifetime. I wasn't just impacting one or two patients at a time, but I was able to impact a greater number of patients.

My military experience instilled a sense of purpose and discipline that we must maintain and stay focused because so many patients depend on us.

Never was that mindset more tested than during COVID-19. We were preparing to launch a COVID treatment for a new FDA-approved indication. My job was to support the global and U.S. medical affairs teams to ensure they had what they needed to educate and help patients going through the COVID disease process. 

Ultimately, we all are a piece of the puzzle, but together, we're a team. My purpose is to effectively maintain our focus in our efforts in immunology to impact the lives of the patients we're here to serve.” 

Natalie S Carr 
Sr. Director COO Medical Affairs Launch

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