The era of being seen starts now.
An institutional approach to reducing medical invalidation for women with chronic illness.
SEENERA is developing a model that combines clinician training, patient-reported measurement, 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.
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 share medical details yet; we’ll cover everything in 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.
No need to include patient details or case specifics; we’ll cover everything in 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
Marina Meyjes is the Co-founder of SEENERA. She holds a BA in History from UCLA (summa cum laude) and an MPhil in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge (First), with a focus on political economy and feminist technoscience, and brings more than six years of nonprofit and think tank experience, most recently in AI policy. Her work is grounded in research, policy, and qualitative methods, and in lived experience of medical invalidation.
“I see many doctors. None of them have truly seen me.
SEENERA exists so the next patient is truly seen.”— Alexandra Schoch, Founder & CEO
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