Dr. Maryam Zeineddin is a family physician, health advocate, and systems leader with over 20 years of clinical experience, having supported thousands of patients through the many seasons of their lives. She earned her medical degree from the University of British Columbia and holds a Fellowship with the College of Family Physicians of Canada.

She founded Zili CARE in 2017 after witnessing — and personally experiencing — the growing burnout and despair affecting both patients and physicians. Working within an increasingly fragmented healthcare system, she felt she was repeatedly band-aiding care rather than addressing the deeper roots of stress, disconnection, and illness. Zili CARE was created to move care upstream, offering practical, preventative tools that support mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing before crisis takes hold.

 

Dr. Zeineddin’s believes that healing requires more than prescriptions — it requires presence, self awareness, connection, and meaning.

 

Alongside her clinical practice, Dr. Zeineddin has played a significant role in health system leadership. She served as President of BC Family Doctors and continues to serve on the Negotiations Coordinating Team for Doctors of BC, advocating for fair compensation, sustainable practice models, and the resources physicians need to provide high-quality patient care. Her leadership in negotiations contributed to the development of a new payment model for family physicians and has been formally recognized by Doctors of BC.

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Her impact has been recognized both within and beyond medicine. In 2024, Dr. Zeineddin was nominated for the YWCA Women of the Year Awards and was honoured as BC Business Woman of the Year – Changemaker Category, acknowledging her commitment to meaningful, values-driven change.

Dr. Zeineddin is also a trusted public voice on wellbeing, resilience, mental health, preventative care, and gender equity, contributing regularly to national and local media including CBC, Global News, and CTV. She is deeply committed to education and mentorship, serving as a clinical instructor within UBC’s Family Practice and Medical programs.

 

At a personal level, Dr. Zeineddin is a mother of two, a wife, a sister, a daughter, and a friend — roles that ground her work in empathy and lived experience. Her own healing journey led her to study Compassionate Inquiry for a year under the mentorship of Gabor Maté, deepening her understanding of how unresolved stress and emotional pain shape health.

Through this work, she came to embody the Zili CARE principles in her own daily life — grounding herself through meditation, daily movement, and time in nature — practices that continue to nourish her capacity to care for others with presence, purpose, and integrity.

 

Zili CARE reflects her belief that health is not something we chase when things fall apart — it is something we cultivate daily, together.

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