Lorna Breen
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October 9, 1970
Lorna Breen | |
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| Born | Lorna Margaret Breen October 9, 1970 Charlottesville, Virginia, United States |
| Died | April 26, 2020 (aged 49) Charlottesville, Virginia |
| Occupation | Physician |
Lorna Margaret Breen (October 9, 1970 – April 26, 2020)[1] was an American physician who was the emergency room director at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. She died by suicide in 2020, while taking a break with family in Charlottesville, Virginia during the coronavirus pandemic.
Breen was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, and raised in Danville, Pennsylvania.[2] She graduated from Wyoming Seminary in 1988.[3] She received a master's degree at Cornell University and attended Medical College of Virginia before doing a residency at Long Island Jewish Medical Center.[4][5]
Career
Breen worked in The Allen Hospital at the NewYork-Presbyterian, where during spring of 2020 she treated patients with COVID-19. She contracted the virus herself then went back to work after isolating for a week and a half. On a family break in Charlottesville, Virginia, she died by suicide on April 26, 2020.[6][7]
Her father said: "She was truly in the trenches of the frontline. She tried to do her job, and it killed her [...] Make sure she’s praised as a hero. Because she was, she’s a casualty just as much as anyone else who has died."[8]