1983
Decides to be a doctor
His father is a doctor. He wants the same job and never changes his mind.
Nîmes, France
DR. LUU’S STORY
Democratize Longevity Medicine
Dr. David Luu is a longevity tech entrepreneur, cardiac surgeon, and philanthropist redefining how longevity medicine is practiced, scaled, and integrated across industries.
Scroll ↓He is the founder and CEO of LongevityDocs, the intelligence network for longevity medicine, uniting more than 1,000 physicians across 68 countries. As the founder of LongevityDocs, he builds the global infrastructure of longevity medicine, uniting physicians, organizations, and leaders around the world. In 2025 he convened the first LongevityDocs Summit in Cannes. In 2026 the network graduated its first Certified Longevity Doctors, the field's first physician credential.
Dr. Luu serves as the Global Chief Longevity Advisor to L'Oréal Group, where he led the 2026 global launch of Lancôme Longevity MD. He sits on the board of Noom. Other ventures include Juisci, an AI-powered medical research app used by 100,000 healthcare professionals and researchers, and Hearty, a digital longevity clinic.
He is an adjunct professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a member of the Board of Advisors of the BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute (BMEEI), where he helps accelerate novel medical technologies across imaging, nanomedicine, AI, robotics, and sensors.
He has been featured in Wired, Huffington Post, The Hollywood Reporter, and Men's Health, and has spoken at CES, the Milken Institute, Web Summit, World Heart Summit, Transform Africa Summit, and the United Nations World Humanitarian Summit.
Since his first humanitarian mission to Burkina Faso in 2001, Dr. Luu has worked to widen access to cardiac care. In 2010 he founded The Heart Fund, a United Nations ECOSOC-accredited non-profit that delivers preventive mobile clinics and open-heart surgery for children in Africa, India, and Haiti. He serves as its founding chairman. The Heart Mobile, its first mobile clinic, launched in Côte d'Ivoire in 2014 and earned Dr. Luu the Prix Galien laureate award, and the World Heart Federation recognized The Heart Fund for the best cardiovascular prevention campaign.
Dr. Luu is a French board-certified surgeon with fellowship training in pediatric cardiac surgery at Marie-Lannelongue and Necker in Paris. He completed his residency at the University of Antilles-Guyane, his research training at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, and his medical education at Montpellier University.
He lives in New York City with his wife, Moana Luu, and their son, Tayron-Khan. He travels widely, reads constantly, and cooks at home. He trains in tennis, calisthenics, martial arts, and yoga.
A LIFEMISSION.
2001
Organizes his first humanitarian mission
He meets children with congenital disease that surgery could fix, and no surgeon to do it. He decides to become that surgeon.
Burkina Faso
2006
Becomes a doctor
The medical degree is the first step. Surgical training takes six more years.
France
2010
Starts The Heart Fund
Children who need heart surgery have no one to organize or pay for it. He starts a non-profit to operate on them.
Haiti
2012
Becomes a surgeon
He completes his fellowships in pediatric cardiac surgery at Marie-Lannelongue and Necker. Now he can do the operation himself.
Paris
2014
Launches Generous People at the Cannes Film Festival
Heart disease in children gets little attention and less funding. Generous People unites celebrities and philanthropists to raise awareness and pay for surgeries.
Cannes
2014
Launches the first Heart Mobile
Most children with heart disease never reach a hospital. He sends the clinic to them, equipped with portable echocardiography, satellite communication, and electronic medical records. It later wins the Prix Galien.
Côte d'Ivoire
2020
Opens Hearty, a longevity clinic
Prevention works better than surgery, but few patients can get it. He opens a concierge longevity clinic and finds hundreds of physicians practicing the same medicine on their own.
New York
2021
Launches Juisci
Clinicians cannot keep up with the research. Juisci uses AI to turn new science into short education for healthcare providers. Today 100,000 of them use it.
New York
2023
Starts LongevityDocs
Longevity physicians have no network. He opens a WhatsApp group with nine doctors, meant to last a few months. It becomes a global physician community.
New York
2025
Joins L'Oréal Group as Chief Longevity Advisor
Longevity science reaches very few people. He brings it to the largest beauty company in the world, working with its 4,000 scientists to democratize longevity.
Paris
Appointed Adjunct Professor at Mount Sinai
Longevity medicine still sits outside the health system. He joins the BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute (BMEII) at the Icahn School of Medicine to bring it in.
New York
Hosts the first LongevityDocs Summit & Awards
He brings the global longevity ecosystem together in Cannes for a summit and awards.
Cannes
2026
Creates the Certified Longevity Doctor credential
The field has no standard for who practices longevity medicine. He builds the first physician credential and inaugurates its first graduating class. LongevityDocs reaches 1,000 physicians across 68 countries.
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