In Remembrance of Kristy Hammam

Editor’s notice: Bob Brisco is the CEO of Internet Brand names, the mother or father organization of WebMD.

Dec. 24, 2021 — We’ve dropped Kristy Hammam, WebMD’s prolonged time editor, to cancer.   She was only 50.

Kristy’s passing would make no feeling.

She did as a lot to teach the public about great wellbeing as practically everyone, ever.  She took treatment of herself and her loved ones.  Exercised.  Ate correct.  Acquired each and every most cancers screening on agenda.  She was generally good, like sunshine.  The professional medical odds and karmic gods were being generally in her favor. 

When diagnosed with breast cancer three years back she embraced every sort of treatment— immunotherapy, radiation, chemo.  And it labored.  For a even though.  Right until it did not.

At initially, it is tricky to pull the lessons from Kristy’s daily life.   For the reason that it can make no sense.  She did every little thing proper.  And continue to, this.

But the lessons are there.  You do the suitable points in daily life for the reason that they are the ideal factors to do in lifetime.  Not for the reason that there are ensures.  But due to the fact as a dad or mum and as a chief, the odds usually subject.    Due to the fact you are a role design.  And due to the fact you are sensible and courageous to your main. 

About a thirty day period ago, Kristy flew from Atlanta to Washington DC, by yourself, to be with her greatest mate.  Blind and compromised, but by no means seriously, she flew as an unaccompanied minimal. 

I really don’t feel I have at any time achieved any person extra adult than Kristy.  She often took accountability.  She generally produced matters far better. 

I know I speak for anyone at WebMD when I say we’ve missing one particular of our greatest human beings. 

It will never ever make perception.  But she would not want it to adjust anything about our mission, which was her mission also.