Dr. Poonam Desai, DO

• Emergency Medicine — American Board of Emergency Medicine
• Lifestyle Medicine — American Board of Lifestyle Medicine

• Precision Medicine
• Point-of-Care Ultrasound

• Menopause Society Certified Practitioner

Licensed and in active practice in New York, California, and Connecticut.

Dr. Desai practiced emergency medicine for nearly two decades at a Level 1 trauma center in New York City, including at Lenox Hill Hospital and NewYork-Presbyterian Queens. She served as Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College for more than eight years, and as Emergency Ultrasound Director at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, where she directed the emergency ultrasound fellowship and taught medical students, residents, and fellows. She has published peer-reviewed research in her field.

She began practicing longevity medicine in 2017 and founded Longevity Place, a concierge longevity clinic in New York. She founded Sumero Health to bring the same model to people who cannot reach a concierge clinic.

• Sumero Health
• Longevity Place
• Her Longevity, a physician-led women's longevity community

TEDx speaker. International speaker on longevity, women's health, and preventive medicine, with recent engagements in Berlin, London, and more. Organizer of Her Longevity Summit, an annual CME-accredited conference for clinicians.

Dr. Desai writes on longevity, hormones, metabolic health, and preventive medicine for an audience of more than 385,000 across her newsletter and social platforms.

• University of California, Los Angeles
• Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, Western University of Health Sciences
• Residency, Emergency Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian Queens
• Fellowship, Emergency Ultrasound, New York Hospital Queens
• Fellowship, Precision Medicine