Longevity

Shamandree Govender, MD, eMBA

18 years in practice

Chief Medical Operations Officer · Chi Longevity

Anaesthesia-and-critical-care specialist leading clinical operations with a focus on cardiometabolic health and midlife women

Metabolic HealthCardiovascular Longevity
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About

Dr. Shamandree Govender, MD, eMBA trained as a specialist in anaesthesia and critical care in South Africa, with early work across ICU and military medical settings. Seeing metabolic and cardiovascular disease arrive as acute crises pushed her toward earlier intervention. She later spent five years at International SOS in corporate medical advisory and aviation-doctor roles, then three years at Accenture on workforce wellbeing and digital health. At Chi, she leads clinical medical operations with a focus on biomarker-driven precision geromedicine, cardiometabolic risk, inflammation biology, and midlife women's health.

What to Know

Signature approach

Govender looks upstream from the acute-care endpoint: which metabolic, cardiovascular, inflammatory, or hormonal patterns are drifting before disease presents. Her work sits between clinical medicine and operations, translating geroscience and diagnostics into structured programmes the team can deliver consistently across locations and client types.

What sets them apart

  • Critical-care foundation. Anaesthesia and ICU experience gives her a sharper view of what late-stage cardiometabolic disease looks like.
  • Medical-risk and operations background. International SOS and Accenture added crisis response, workforce wellbeing, digital health, and organisational strategy.
  • Midlife women's health focus. Her public clinical work emphasizes cardiometabolic health, inflammation, and physiological transitions in midlife.
  • APAC longevity visibility. Speaker and panelist across NUS Geromedicine, Flash Forward, WHX Cape Town, and other longevity forums.

Before You Book

  • Ask about direct involvement. Govender leads clinical operations, so confirm whether she joins your consult or shapes the plan through team review.
  • Relevant questions. cardiometabolic risk, inflammation, and midlife women's health are the areas most tied to her public clinical work.
  • System-wide role. She is presented as a Chi-wide clinical operations leader rather than a single-location provider.

Expertise

Focus areas

Metabolic HealthCardiovascular Longevity

Patient types

General Adult LongevityExecutives & High PerformersWomen in Perimenopause & MenopauseMetabolic & Weight Management

Credentials

Education

  • MBChB

    University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

  • Specialist in Anaesthesia and Critical Care

    Colleges of Medicine of South Africa

  • eMBA, Healthcare Innovation and Longevity Strategy

    Singapore (in progress)

Years in practice

18

Affiliations

Chi LongevityPrimary

CMO

Thought Leadership

Media Appearances

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