Building Haibu Health: Dr. Shazhan Amed on Preventing Crises, Human-Led Care & the Future of Diabetes

In this episode of The People-Driven CEO Podcast, Shane sits down with Dr. Shazhan Ahmad, pediatric endocrinologist, Clinical Professor at UBC and Founder & CEO of Haibu Health, to talk about healthcare, entrepreneurship and building a more proactive future for people living with diabetes. Haibu Health is focused on helping patients, families and clinicians use health data earlier so they can prevent avoidable crises and make better decisions together. Shazhan shares how years of working with children and families living with diabetes shaped her understanding of where traditional healthcare can fall short. She explains how disconnected data from glucose monitors, insulin pumps, wearables and medical records can make it harder to see risk early and why bringing that information together has the potential to change chronic care. The conversation also explores Shazhan’s transition from physician and researcher to entrepreneur, the realities of commercializing healthcare innovation and what it means to build technology around real patient and clinician needs rather than technology for its own sake. At the centre of Haibu’s approach is a model Shazhan describes as human-led and technology-assisted. The goal is not to remove people from healthcare, but to give clinicians, patients and families better information so they can act sooner, reduce unnecessary suffering and help people living with diabetes thrive. For Shazhan, being human ultimately comes back to connection and the way we experience one another through our senses, relationships and shared presence.

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