HealthifyMe, an Indian health and fitness app, on Tuesday 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, the comapny said in a statement on Tuesday.

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 organisational goal is to put metabolic health at its core and weave key cognitive and behavioural neuroscience elements as a part of the company's DNA across all its products, the statement said.

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, the company's statement read.

“I have known Dr Shebani at Stanford University for years now and we have been mutually following each other's work. I am thrilled to have her join the team," said Tushar Vashisht, Co-founder and CEO, HealthifyMe.

“I am 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,” said Dr. Shebani Sethi, Chief Medical Officer, HealthifyMe.