19 | Founding the NEXT Big Thing

In this episode of The Inflection Point, I dive into a wonderful conversation with Abeir Wasim. Abeir is a recent graduate of the NEXT-36 Program which is a founders development program hosted in Toronto. She is also a Global Health Advocate and a creative entrepreneur. After completing her undergraduate degree in Neuroscience at the University of Toronto, Abeir worked in clinical research, helping improve surgical patient outcomes at Sunnybrook Hospital,  Canada's largest trauma center. During the pandemic, Abeir applied her research skills to support Health in Emergency operations with the Canadian Red Cross. She has published several peer-reviewed papers and presented research at national and international medical conferences. Abeir enjoys working in interdisciplinary teams to solve challenging problems. During her Master's in Global Health at McMaster University, she won three National Hackathons and was selected as one of 100 youth leaders worldwide to participate in the Global Leadership Challenge run by the University of Oxford. Abeir was inspired to pursue entrepreneurship to scale impact at the intersection of health and technology. In her spare time, she enjoys playing softball, playing some beats on piano, traveling, and improving her videography skills. She is also well known for her amazing end of year videos.  We hope you enjoy listening to today's episode of The Inflection Point! There are  a lot of exciting episodes coming up as I dive into  deep conversations around starting a company from an entrepreneur's point of view and the ups and downs that come along with it in the process. You can check us out at www. The inflection point.com. Please leave us a comment with your thoughts and you can send your questions to [email protected] so that I can ask those questions to our guests and spark insightful conversations around entrepreneurship. You can also follow us on instagram @theinflectionpointwithshaan and if you leave today with one message, I hope it's this - “Change is inevitable, Embrace it if you can”. See you all next week!