Lorna Breen

I mean, you...

Like Lorna Breen, Heroes Foundation, for example-

Yeah.

Oh, good

Thank you for asking that question.

We were created in the summer of 2020 when the nation of health workers and their families and friends responded to our family after my sister-in-law, Dr. Lorna Breen, died by suicide.

And in that moment, in the summer of 2020, if I take you back there to when the country was really celebrating our health workers as heroes, banging pots and pans, hanging signs up across our healthcare delivery system, celebrating the heroes, there was a connotation there that the efforts that health workers were making was really and truly heroic.

Over time, that sentiment has evolved, and frankly, we need to think first about our healthcare workers as humans before we gave them that accolade, heroes.

Tonight I'm joined by my good friend Nick Strasser from Vanderbilt, and we're really excited to host this special episode on provider health.

Tonight we have Corey Feist, a JD MBA, who's the CEO and co-founder of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes Foundation.

I got to know Corey through his roles at the University of Virginia.

He was CEO of our university physicians group, which kind of oversees our kind of doctors' finances and helps with how to run the department and the university.

Sure, and it's wonderful to be here, Joe and Nick.

Thanks for having me.

Really appreciate spending some time with me to talk about the issues that we really wrestle with every day at the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes Foundation.

So as you mentioned, Joe, I was the CEO of the University of Virginia Physicians Group, and interestingly, I got to the University of Virginia Physicians Group in 2006 as the general counsel.

The Papageno Effect, which is a research, it's been researched, basically it's storytelling for healing purposes.

And so we actually partnered with the Dr. Lorna Breen Foundation, which Dr. Lorna Breen was an ICU physician here in New York.

And in April, I believe it was during the pandemic, she died by suicide.

She ended up getting treatment.