An institutional approach to reducing medical invalidation for women with chronic illness.
SEENERA is developing a model that combines clinician training, patient-reported measurement, support for improvement, and credentialing for health systems and clinical organizations.
Reducing medical dismissal, one doctor at a time.
We are in an active discovery phase, learning directly from patients and clinicians to shape what we’re building.
Training is only one part of what SEENERA is building.
These components are being developed as one institutional model, rather than as standalone offerings.
The aim is not to teach clinicians a script. It is to build a way for health systems to learn from what patients experience and identify where practice may need to change.
Women experience medical dismissal differently:
SEENERA’s training and measurement are being developed with careful attention to how racial and ethnic inequities worsen women’s experiences of medical invalidation.
Train. Measure. Improve. Credential.
The Seen Score, training program, and credentialing standards are still in development.
Participate in our discovery.
Share your experience
Are you a woman living with chronic illness who has felt dismissed, disbelieved, or unheard in a medical setting? Your experience is the foundation of this work.
We are conducting one-on-one discovery conversations with patients about their experiences navigating care. There is no preparation required, no product to try, and no obligation beyond a single conversation.
No need to include medical details in your message. We can discuss only what you’re comfortable sharing during the conversation.
Share your experience →Talk with us
Do you care for women with complex chronic conditions? We want to learn from you.
We are speaking with physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals about the realities of providing this care: what makes it difficult, what helps build trust, and what support would actually be useful.
Please do not include identifiable patient information. We can discuss experiences in general terms during the conversation.
Talk with us →Help shape an institutional pilot
SEENERA is speaking with leaders in patient experience, quality and safety, risk, and medical education to understand where a pilot could live, what outcomes would matter, and how adoption and procurement work.
This is a discovery conversation about what would need to be true for a pilot in your setting.
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Built from lived experience.
Alexandra Schoch
Founder & CEO
Alexandra Schoch is the Founder and CEO of SEENERA. She brings more than a decade of healthcare nonprofit leadership across operations, development, and large-scale fundraising. She earned her BA in Cognitive Science from Columbia University, where her award-winning senior thesis focused on psychoneuroimmunology. She was admitted to Columbia Mailman’s MPH program in Sociomedical Sciences and deferred matriculation to build SEENERA. Her work is grounded in lived experience of the diagnostic delays and medical invalidation SEENERA is being built to address.
Marina Meyjes
Co-Founder, Research & AI Strategy
Marina Meyjes is Co-Founder of SEENERA, where she leads research and shapes the company’s strategy for the responsible use of AI as its model develops. She brings more than six years of nonprofit and think tank experience, most recently in AI policy, with a background spanning research, policy, and qualitative methods.
She earned her BA in History from UCLA, summa cum laude, and her MPhil in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge (First), with a focus on political economy and feminist technoscience. She brings firsthand experience of medical invalidation to her work at SEENERA.
“I see many doctors. None of them have truly seen me.
The era of being seen starts now.”Alexandra Schoch, Founder & CEO
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