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Kortni

Co-Founder, Strategic Director

My mother suddenly passed away from unknown causes a couple of weeks into my 2nd year of medical school. I was raised in a single-parent home and my mother was my best friend, so this was extremely traumatizing for me. I spent many years learning how to navigate through my own feelings of depression, loneliness, and grief just by trial-and-error. In all honesty, it has been a really tough journey - mostly because losing a parent in early adulthood made me feel very isolated from most of my peers. It was hard knowing what to ask for, and most friends didn’t know how to help. This experience inspired me to create a forum for medical professionals in training to share with and support one another. If you are reading this now because of a personal experience, I just want you to know that you are not alone and I hope this site can help in some way.

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Priya

Co-Founder, Technical Director

When my father was diagnosed with late-stage cancer at the end of my 1st year of medical school, I honestly didn’t know what to expect. Watching him undergo treatment for his disease while juggling the many academic and professional responsibilities of being a medical student, I dealt with increasing degrees of depression and anxiety and found myself struggling to find ways to successfully navigate each of these challenges. It wasn’t until nearly a year later that I recognized that what I was experiencing was actually grief. Since then, I’ve learned that grief can take many forms, and I hope that this website that we have created can serve as a resource for grieving students of all types--a place to learn about the grieving process, to find helpful resources and strategies to cope with grief, and to find support and solidarity in others.