Experts And Doctors Flipping The Script
Meet your “Longevity Redefiners.” These top experts have dedicated their careers to ensuring that women have the information, access, and power to live their healthiest, happiest lives. They’re not only working to completely flip the narrative on what it means to live longer and stronger, but empowering women to make small, actionable changes that can make a difference in their overall healthspan.
In celebration of 20 years of Women’s Health, we’re kicking off our first-ever Longevity List with 20 experts in a variety of categories, from courageous founders and leaders, to hormone and menopause experts, ‘musclespan’ practitioners, and world-renowned neuroscientists. This comprehensive list showcases the best of the best… and gives you a crew of experts to turn to and rely on for health advice and inspiration when the longevity bro noise gets a little too loud.
Changing The Narrative
Robin Berzin, MD
Dr. Berzin is the founder and CEO of Parsley Health.
Anne Fulenwider and Monica Molenaar
Fulenwider and Molenaar are cofounders and co-CEOs of Alloy Women’s Health.
Deborah Kado, MD
Dr. Kado is a geriatrician and codirector of the Stanford Longevity Center.
Jennifer Garrison, PhD
Garrison is codirector of the Center for Healthy Aging in Women and cofounder and executive director of ProductiveHealth.org at the Buck Institute.
Harnessing Hormones
Daisy Robinton, PhD
Robinton is the cofounder of Oviva Therapeutics, a biomedical company aimed at improving ovarian function and extending female healthspan.
Kara Goldman, MD
Dr. Goldman is an ob-gyn, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and director of fertility preservation at Northwestern University.
Stephanie Faubion, MD
Dr. Faubion is the medical director of The Menopause Society, director of Mayo Clinic’s Center for Women’s Health and chair of the department of medicine at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida.
Jennifer Ashton, MD, MS
Dr. Ashton is double board-certified in obesity medicine and ob-gyn, with a master’s degree in nutrition.
Jessica Shepherd, MD, MBA
Dr. Shepherd is a board-certified ob-gyn, menopause and longevity expert, chief medical officer at Hers, and the author of Generation M.
Laura Riley, MD
Dr. Riley is an ob-gyn specializing in obstetric infectious disease, chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Weill Cornell Medicine, and Obstetrician and Gynecologist-in-Chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Staying Strong
Gabrielle Lyon, DO
Dr. Lyon is a fellowship-trained physician who specializes in combining exercise and nutrition insight with cutting-edge psych science. She is the author of Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well.
Roma van der Walt
Van der Walt is a former member of the German national team in modern pentathlon, sports scientist, and CEO and founder of Vitelle.
Jennifer Schrack, PhD, MS
Schrack is a professor of epidemiology and medicine and the director of the Center on Aging and Health at the Johns Hopkins University.
Stacy T. Sims, PhD
Sims is an exercise physiologist, nutrition scientist, and expert in female-specific nutrition and training for health, performance, and longevity. She is also the author of ROAR.
Heather Milton, MS, RCEP
Milton is a registered clinical exercise physiologist, supervisor at NYU Langone’s Sports Performance Center and certified strength and conditioning specialist.
Sarita Khemani, MD
Dr. Khemani is a perioperative medicine physician at Stanford Medicine. She has a special interest in enhancing cognitive and physical resilience and promoting long-term healthspan in patients.
Powering Brain Health
Fanny Elahi, MD, PhD
Dr. Elahi is an associate professor of neurology and neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.
Elissa Epel, PhD
Epel is a professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at The University of California, San Francisco, vice chair of psychology, and director of the UCSF Aging Metabolism Emotions Center. She is an international expert on stress, well-being, and optimal aging and a best-selling author of The Telomere Effect, and The Stress Prescription.
Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH
Dr. Fried is an epidemiologist, geriatrician, director of the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center, and former dean of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.
Sharon Parish, MD
Dr. Parish is a professor of medicine in clinical psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, and an attending physician at New York Presbyterian Westchester Division.
Dena Dubal, MD
Dr. Dubal is a neurologist and neuroscientist, and the David A. Coulter Endowed Chair in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease at the University of California, San Francisco.
Currie Engel is the news & features editor at Women’s Health, where she works on zeitgeisty digital and print features for the magazine. She previously worked as as an award-winning local reporter specializing in health investigations and features, and as a freelance researcher at Time magazine. Currie was a spin instructor in college, but these days, with two marathons under her belt (New York and Paris), a sunny Saturday usually finds her running around the city. And a quick post-run stop for pastries at her favorite local bakery is a must!
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