Remembering Dr. Sey Park
2016 graduate, second-year resident Dr. Sey Park passed away Jan. 9
Jan. 13, 2018 — Dr. Sey Park, a 2016 graduate of the UF College of Medicine and a second-year resident in the department of community health and family medicine, unexpectedly passed away Tuesday, Jan. 9. He was 28.
“Sey was widely known at UF Health and very popular among not only his classmates from the class of 2016, but also many of our current students,” said Michael L. Good, M.D., dean of the UF College of Medicine. “His joyful spirit and fierce devotion to patient care was infectious, and his passing represents a profound loss for all of us.”
The department of community health and family medicine will hold a service to celebrate Dr. Park’s life at the University Auditorium, Jan. 22 at 6 p.m.
In conjunction with the Park family, the department of community health and family medicine has also established the Sey Park Memorial Fund for Resident and Student Education and Resiliency Outreach. To learn more about the fund or give a gift in Dr. Park’s memory, visit giving.ufhealth.org/seyparkmemorial.
Excerpt from Doctor Gator Summer 2018
Passionate about people, Park was investigating the topic of resiliency in medical students and residents.
“Sey helped several of his classmates and colleagues work through personal or academic issues. He wanted to not only provide support but look at that topic in a systematic fashion. Hopefully going forward, it will provide funds to support initiatives that encourage resiliency — peer-to-peer networking and social groups and just supporting each other at the medical student and resident level,” said Ki Park, MD ’06, Park’s sister and an assistant professor of medicine at UF.
