Editor’s Note: Jennifer Breen Feist is Dr. Breen’s sister and a co-founder of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation. Corey Feist is Dr. Breen’s brother-in-law and a health care executive ...

In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, Dr. Lorna Breen, 49, felt overwhelmed by treating so many patients very ill with COVID-19. Then, she contracted COVID-19 and grappled with depression.

Dr. Lorna Breen died by suicide 5 years ago, early in the COVID pandemic. A foundation in her honor is helping health care workers prioritize mental health.

The new law, signed March 18, is named for Lorna Breen, MD, who was chair of the emergency department at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital in New York City. Dr. Breen died by suicide April 26 ...

Together with passage of the Dr. Lorna Breen Act, this will carry us — both front line medical professionals and the general population — now and through the long road ahead to a better future.

News of Dr. Breen’s death sent shockwaves through the medical community, and received national attention, but for many in the medical profession, it is an all-too-familiar story.

Dr. Breen was 49-years old. According to the Times, Dr. Breen had described scenes of the toll the coronavirus took on patients to her father Philip C. Breen, who is also a doctor.