About
Abigail Goshen, PhD is Chief Scientific & Innovation Officer at the Sheba Longevity Center, where she leads the program's research and development arm. She trained in epidemiology and preventive medicine at Tel Aviv University after undergraduate work in molecular biology and nutritional science plus a clinical-dietitian internship. Her published research uses Israeli population cohorts, including the Mabat Zahav Israeli Nutrition Study, to study frailty, diet quality, cognitive decline, and successful aging. At Sheba, that background helps turn clinical assessments into research infrastructure.
What to Know
Signature approach
Goshen's work is the measurement layer behind the clinic. She designs cohorts, prognostic models, and research workflows that help Sheba learn from 450+ biomarker assessments over time. Her nutrition and frailty research keeps the program anchored in population-level aging outcomes, not only individual lab optimization.
What sets them apart
- Research leadership inside a hospital clinic. Sheba's assessment, biobanking, and follow-up data give her a research platform most private clinics do not have.
- Frailty and diet-quality scholarship. Her work links nutrition patterns, cognitive trajectory, frailty risk, and successful aging in older adults.
- Geroscience network. She appears with Sheba leadership and international aging researchers in work on public-hospital longevity clinics.
Before You Book
- Research role. Her work shapes cohorts, models, biomarkers, and innovation strategy; medical decisions sit with Sheba's physicians.
- Research participation. Ask which biobanking or study components are part of the standard visit and which are optional.
- Nutrition background. Her diet-quality work informs research design; routine nutrition counseling runs through the clinical and allied-health team.
Expertise
Patient types
Affiliations
Thought Leadership
Publications
- Diet Quality and Incident Frailty in Adults 65 Years or Older in the Mabat Zahav Israeli Nutrition Study · JAMA Network Open, 2023
- Diet Quality and Longevity and Successful Aging in Israeli Older Adults · JAMA Network Open, 2022
- Diet quality in relation to healthy ageing: the Israeli Longitudinal Study on Aging (ILSA) · Public Health Nutrition, 2019
- Establishing healthy longevity clinics in publicly funded hospitals · Nature Medicine, 2024
- Cross-sectional evaluation of cardiovascular biological age using AI-driven aging clocks · European Heart Journal — Digital Health, 2026
- Study protocol: associations between hormonal profile and frailty in community-dwelling older adults · PMC (study protocol), 2025
Media Appearances
- Diet Quality and Incident Frailty in Adults 65 Years or Older in the Mabat Zahav Israeli Nutrition Study · Mayo Clinic Proceedings (YouTube)
Notable Collaborators
- Uri Goldbourt · Tel Aviv University — cardiovascular epidemiology, co-author on multiple Mabat Zahav cohort papers
- Yariv Gerber · Tel Aviv University — epidemiology, co-author on Israeli aging cohort work
- Tzipi Strauss · Sheba Longevity Center founder — co-author on hormonal-profile/frailty study and the publicly-funded longevity clinics paper
- Evelyne Bischof · Sheba Longevity Center medical director — co-author on Nature Medicine commentary on hospital-embedded longevity clinics
- James L. Kirkland · Mayo Clinic — geroscience and senolytics; co-author on the publicly-funded longevity clinics paper
- Andrea B. Maier · National University of Singapore / Healthy Longevity Medicine Society — co-author on the publicly-funded longevity clinics paper
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