HealthifyMe appoints Stanford’s Dr. Shebani Sethi as Chief Medical Officer

In a first for a health-tech startup in India, HealthifyMe, India’s leading health & fitness app, today announced the appointment of Dr. Shebani Sethi as its consulting Chief Medical Officer (CMO). Dr. Shebani is the Founding Director of Metabolic Psychiatry, a term she coined at Stanford University School of Medicine. She brings a decade of experience in obesity medicine and psychiatry along with cutting-edge knowledge of metabolic health. She will play an instrumental role in building HealthifyMe 2.0 where the larger organizational goal is to put metabolic health at its core and weave key cognitive and behavioral neuroscience elements as a part of the company's DNA across all its products.

Dr. Shebani Sethi is a physician board-certified in obesity medicine and psychiatry. Besides consulting with HealthifyMe, she is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, where she pursues metabolic psychiatry research and runs a clinical program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Sethi works at the intersection of metabolic health and psychology which is a rare and newer field of research applicable to fitness and wellness. She will apply her expertise to make HealthifyPro the world's foremost metabolic health solution by adding principles of neuropsychology and metabolic medicine into its core design..

Tushar Vashisht, Co-founder and CEO, HealthifyMe says, “I have known Dr. Shebani at Stanford University for years now and we have been mutually following each others’ work. I am thrilled to have her join the team. She is a rare global expert in Metabolic Psychiatry; a field that has tremendous application in product and coaching design for HealthifyMe’s core. She has already played a key role in building HealthifyPro - integrating CGMs, metabolic panels with personalized nutrition and behavior change strategies for our customers. Her expertise will enable us to stay ahead of the curve as we build the most advanced solution ever for fitness, fat loss & metabolic health."

Dr. Shebani Sethi, Chief Medical Officer, HealthifyMe says, “I’m excited to work with South Asia’s largest health and fitness start-up company. The leadership wholeheartedly embraces the latest research in obesity medicine, with a focus on more than just weight loss, but rather metabolic health as a holistic state of health to be achieved. This is the future of what we should be doing to improve the health of this community and beyond.” 

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