The desire to empower people to live longer and healthier must face a healthcare landscape that still focuses on reactive treatment. That is what drives Nicole Sirotin, M.D. As the CEO of the Institute for Healthier Living Abu Dhabi, she oversees an organization that melds research and clinical treatment with technology to bring healthy longevity-based practice to her patients.
Dr. Sirotin’s healthy longevity approach centers on precision lifestyle medicine — a whole food, plant-based diet, physical activity, stress management, rest and adequate sleep — as the foundation for preventing and reversing disease. This passion is evident in the Lifestyle Medicine program she launched at the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi Cancer Center, which focuses on personalized treatment for each patient to reduce side effects and improve survival rates.
However, as Dr. Sirotin says, “it’s not enough just to apply lifestyle principles….you have to bring in precision medicine, measure and understand what’s going on in the body.” To that end, Dr. Sirotin oversaw the first standards for Longevity Medicine through the Institute for Healthier Living Abu Dhabi, in partnership with Department of Health Abu Dhabi and the Healthy Longevity Medicine Society, of which she is a council member and Secretary General.
Dr. Sirotin has also previously served as Department Chair for Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi and is a clinical assistant professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. She previously taught at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Weill Cornell Medical College, where she served as the Medical Director of the student-run Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights. At Cornell, she co-ran a grant-funded project that looked at maternal food insecurity, and its effect on maternal depression and infant feeding practices. During her training at UCSF, Dr. Sirotin was awarded the UCSF Exceptional Physician award.
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Sirotin to our growing list of DOC 2025 Faculty and Specialists!