Prof. Tzipi Strauss

Prof. Strauss is Head of the Department of Neonatology at the Sheba Medical Center and Professor at the School of Medicine. She obtained her M.D. from the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion Institute of Technology and an MPH from the School of Public Health at Harvard. She performed her residency in Pediatrics at the Sheba Medical Center. During her residency she performed research at the Leiden University Medical Center in Holland. Formerly she served as Deputy Director of the Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital. and has a Harvard degree in Master of public health.

She has recently established the first academic and clinical research center for Longevity in Israel. The Longevity Academic Center at the Sheba Medical Center aims to enhance knowledge and interventions in aging and longevity to identify opportunities for improving the quality of life and function in older age. The Center focuses on studying life from younger adulthood to the centenarian's age group (45-100 years old), including cutting-edge diagnostic, analysis and monitoring of health biomarkers and biological age, while studying multidisciplinary interventions.