About Us
The motivation behind setting up BEING.LAGOM
We are more than percentage points, the statistics don't reduce us to a proportion of healthcare professionals who have anxiety/ depression/burnout.
Our Story
These are the humans behind some of the numbers. The Lagom Family is made up of Healthcare Professionals & Students: doctors, nurses, neuroscientist, physiotherapist, and non-medicos as well, who empathise, who've been through lived experience, and who are all driven by their passion to help the healers who are hurting.
Meet the beautiful humans of the Lagom Family
Junaid Khan
Head of PR & Marketing
Dr Junaid Khan is an internal medicine resident in the NHS
Shehani Jayalath
Head of Research
Shehani is a budding neuroscientist at Neurasmus who is passionate about mental health
Aqib Khan
Head of Business Development
One of the few unicorns who is a non-medico, Aqib uses his background in the corporate world to help Lagom.
Venugopal Kalavacharla
Head of Community
UPSC Aspirant, Winner of Namma Bengaluru 2022 for his work during the COVID-19 pandemic, Venu really empathises with healthcare professionals and aims to work on public policy to make long term changes.
Shenara Peiris
Social Media Executive
Shenara is a medical graduate from SYSU who is the genius behind many of Lagom's memes and social media strategies to connect to healthcare professionals around the globe
Shalini Seviratne
Shalini is a final year medical student who's our creative expert in our social media designs and brings it to life with her colourful personality
Social Media Executive
Disha Ramjuttun
Research Associate
Disha is our in-house clinical psychologist, and part of the brilliant research team to ensure Being.Lagom stays relevant & up to date with the interventions we offer
Vaidehi Patel
Social Media Associate
Vaidehi is a medical student from GMU and the innovative brains behind the art on our page and creator of the character: BrainWave!
Simran Shakya
Head of Reels
Dr Shakya, newly crowned by the Nepali Medical Council, is the star we see in many of our reels and team lead of all our MedFluencers featured on our page
Achu Bose
Reels & Content strategist
Achu is the powerhouse that brings the life to Being.Lagom, with her entertaining reels, the marketing strategies and links to the Medfluencer community
Nate Dejene
Business Consultant
Serial Entrepreneur & Angel investor, Nate has joined the team to ensure that Being.Lagom can be a self sustainable social enterprise with his market knowledge
Shamali Pai
Content Creator
Our always camera-ready girl who's part of many of our hit reels with her witty content, Shamali has always been a strong advocate for mental health and life-long learning
Salman Maqbool
Technical Officer
Salman is the genius behind psychatr.ai and our website, and all things technical. He might not stitch skin together but his stitched this pretty site for us
Naz
Content Creator
Dr Shakya, newly crowned by the Nepali Medical Council, is the star we see in many of our reels and team lead of all our MedFluencers featured on our page
Shreya Singh
Social Media Manager
Our Canva wizard who is the creative guru behind our Being.Lagom pitch deck, social media feed, Shreya Singh is a medical student in ZJU.
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Why now?
Healthcare professionals globally have been facing increasingly challenging working conditions in recent decades. These conditions have pushed beyond what is reasonably expected from them. The Covid-19 pandemic has only made the situation worse and highlighted the pressing need to prioritize the well-being of healthcare staff. The continuity of healthcare services is at stake, making it crucial to address this issue immediately.
What's wrong with DSM-V?
Our understanding of mental health is currently based on a biomedical two-dimensional model that cannot capture a holistic view of mental illness and mental wellbeing. As such, due to a broad spectrum of mental health presentations, the current understating of aetiology, screening, diagnosis and interventions is understudied.
Why such a niche target audience?
Healthcare professionals often experience elevated stress due to unique occupational stressors like long hours, sleep deprivation, lack of social support and dealing with death and dying.
Our team is also made up of >70% HCPs and thus can empathise with the problem acutely. We believe we are best positioned to come up with human-centric solution thanks to our diverse and passionate team who have a range of expertise and experience in both clinical & non-clinical fields.