Clinical Professor and Pediatric Endocrinologist
UBC and BC Children's Hospital
University of British Columbia
Dr. Shazhan Amed is a pediatric endocrinologist and Head of the Division of Endocrinology at BC Children’s Hospital, a Clinical Professor at UBC, and a Clinician Scientist at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. Dr. Amed’s vision is that all children and their caregivers living with diabetes in British Columbia have access to equitable, compassionate and state-of-the-art care where they are empowered as partners to optimize their health and well-being so that kids can flourish, and ‘diabetes doesn’t get in the way.’ Her career objectives are: 1) to be an empathetic, highly proficient, and innovative health professional; and 2) to do inventive and pioneering research that truly impacts the long-term health of children and youth.
Dr. Amed is a public health and health services researcher with specific interests in digital health, big data, systems science, quality improvement and health system re-design, and prevention of youth-onset type 2 diabetes and childhood obesity. Dr. Amed is the Principal Investigator for TrustSphere, a digital health platform that was developed by a pioneering team of researchers and industry partners and that has been co-created with diabetes clinicians and children and families living with type 1 diabetes. She is also the Principal Investigator of CAPACITY, a research initiative involving 10 pediatric diabetes centres across Canada that will develop a national pediatric diabetes registry with the goal of using data to inform policy, advocacy, health system design, quality improvement and health outcomes research. Lastly, she is the founder of Live 5-2-1-0, a community based participatory initiative that uses system science and collective impact with the goal of preventing youth-onset type 2 diabetes.
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Friday, October 27, 2023
14:00 – 15:00 EST