We are a healthspan
technology company
building comprehensive toolkits for science-based preventative medicine.
Optimal Healthspans for Everyone
Optispan’s BHAG is “Optimal Healthspans for Everyone”.
We envision a world where all of us can take charge of our personal health trajectories and live in good health for as long as possible. In the status quo, many people lose years of high-quality life to chronic illness or disability. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Proactive Healthcare — rather than reactive sick-care, where we wait for a person to get ill before doing something about it — is the way forward for the 21st century. To get there, we need to take pragmatic and rigorous steps towards creating a new culture of health; educating a new generation of doctors, coaches, and consumers; and enabling new discoveries from interventions to biomarkers to devices that keep you healthy instead of keeping you sick. Our success will mean the preservation of healthy lives as well as the elevation of human accomplishment, happiness, and flourishing beyond what we can currently imagine.
The last century has seen major progress towards increasing global life expectancy via vaccines, antibiotics, organ transplants, and more. This century, we will transition to a norm of optimal healthspans for all people. We hope you’ll take this generational step with us.
Meet the Team
We are a team of world-class scientists, doctors, and coaches with a track record in pioneering longevity medicine and research.
Dr. Matt Kaeberlein
Chief Executive Officer / Co-Founder
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I went to graduate school thinking I would work on structural biology or x-ray crystallography, but ended up in the geroscience field after hearing a talk by MIT professor Leonard P. Guarente about how his lab was studying the biology of aging using biochemical, genetic, and molecular biological techniques. I was immediately fascinated by the complexity of the problem and got hooked.
Since then, my time in the field has opened my eyes to many surprising realities. For example, it is striking to me how easy it is to modulate the rate of aging in animals by manipulating individual genes or environmental parameters. I've also appreciated learning how people typically consider risk and reward in the context of healthy aging: many don't realize that health is relative, and that a "healthy" 60-year-old is functionally impaired compared to a typical 30-year-old. As such, we should weigh any risks associated with an intervention that might delay aging against the risks of doing nothing, which are significant. As the geroscience field matures, I hope to see more recognition by payers that it is more economical to keep people healthy than to keep people sick, and improved knowledge among providers about biological aging and its connection to health and disease.
In addition to my work at Optispan, I'm an Affiliate Professor of Oral Health Sciences at the University of Washington and Co-Director of the Dog Aging Project. I've previously served as founding Director of the University of Washington Healthy Aging and Longevity Research Institute, Director of the NIH Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging and the Biological Mechanisms of Healthy Aging Training Program at the University of Washington, and CEO and Chair of the American Aging Association.
Dr. George Haddad
Chief Medical Officer / Co-Founder
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My fascination with health and disease has been a constant driving force throughout my life. I wanted to become a doctor as a child, and enjoyed learning about pathology and reactive disease care in medical school. After I started practicing medicine, I was surprised by the degree to which our health depends on diet and lifestyle choices, and realized that the average medical school curriculum spends very little time on topics like nutrition, exercise, and sleep.
Reading foundational scientific papers by my co-founder Matt Kaeberlein opened my eyes to the promise of aging biology to transition society away from a focus on disease to a focus on prevention and healthy aging. It's not just about science—it's about working together toward a common vision for a new paradigm. Healthspan optimization is a civilizational goal. I believe that aging biology is modifiable, and that we will soon have interventions that slow or even reverse aging. As we work towards those interventions, I'm excited to help people "know themselves", to give people the tools to optimize their healthspan, and to incorporate findings from this evolving field into our praxis.
I began my clinical practice in 2001 as a founding member of the Swedish Medical Centre's hospitalist team. I've also served as Medical Director of Swedish Executive Health, an intensive preventive health program designed in collaboration with Microsoft, and became the P4 Medicine Institute's Medical Director in 2017.
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Tayler Moore
Head of Operations
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Tara Mei
Head of Strategy
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Jessica Osborn
Head of Health Promotion
Board of Directors
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Patty Sewell
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Dave Sabey
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Dr. Matt Kaeberlein