About
Erik Baltaxe, MD is a pulmonologist on the Sheba Longevity Center team. He earned his MD at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, completed internal-medicine residency and pulmonary fellowship at Sheba Medical Center, and later worked on digital health, integrated care, and prehabilitation research with Hospital Clínic de Barcelona collaborators. Public records also list him as a consultant pulmonologist at Rabin Medical Center from 2019 onward. At Sheba, his pulmonary background fits the respiratory and functional-health side of the 10-domain longevity assessment.
What to Know
Signature approach
Baltaxe brings a respiratory-medicine lens to a program that measures aging across organ systems. His research background in integrated care and digital-health implementation fits Sheba's multi-station model: respiratory risk, exercise tolerance, post-viral symptoms, and cardiopulmonary resilience are interpreted as part of the whole longevity picture.
What sets them apart
- Sheba-trained specialist. Internal medicine residency and pulmonary fellowship were both completed at Sheba Medical Center.
- Digital-health research record. Publications from the Barcelona period cover integrated care, telemonitoring, and prehabilitation service design.
- Respiratory-aging relevance. Pulmonology adds depth for exercise tolerance, recovery, sleep-adjacent breathing issues, and post-viral health questions inside the assessment.
Before You Book
- Pulmonary domain. Ask whether respiratory testing, exercise tolerance, or post-viral symptoms are part of your assessment goals.
- Team assignment. He is one specialist in a team-based program, so confirm availability if pulmonology is a priority.
- Care setting. His public Rabin Medical Center role is separate from the Sheba Longevity Center pathway.
Expertise
Focus areas
Patient types
Credentials
Education
MD, Medicine
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Faculty of Medicine (2004)
Residency
Internal Medicine
Sheba Medical Center (Internal Medicine E)
Fellowship
Pulmonary Medicine
Sheba Medical Center (Pulmonary Institute)
Years in practice
13
Affiliations
Thought Leadership
Publications
- Persistent Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection in Immunocompromised Patients · Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2023
- Digital Health Transformation of Integrated Care in Europe: Overarching Analysis of 17 Integrated Care Programs · Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2019
- Prospective cohort study for assessment of integrated care with a triple aim approach · BMC Health Services Research, 2022
- Role of Co-creation for Large-Scale Sustainable Adoption of Digitally-Supported Integrated Care: Prehabilitation as Use Case · International Journal of Integrated Care, 2022
Notable Collaborators
- Josep Roca, MD · Pulmonologist and digital-health lead at Hospital Clinic de Barcelona — co-author on integrated-care and prehabilitation publications
- Isaac Cano, PhD · Hospital Clinic Barcelona digital-health researcher — co-author on integrated-care and prehabilitation work
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