Rakesh Suri, M.D., D.Phil. is Medical Advisor and former President and Chief Medical Officer at Fountain Life. Prior to this role, Dr. Suri was President of International Operations and a practicing cardiothoracic surgeon at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. In that role, he worked collaboratively to expand "One Cleveland Clinic" in the U.S. and abroad, including Global Business Development and Facilitated Access. He also served as CEO and President of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi from 2017-2021. Prior to that, he was a consultant in the Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Professor of Surgery and Chair of the Enterprise Robotic Practice at Mayo Clinic. He has completed more than 7,000 surgical procedures in his career, is Past-President of The Heart Valve Society, a Diplomate of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. His significant research pursuits include contributions to more than 340 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, more than 15 patents and several FDA multicenter trials.

Dr. Suri earned his undergraduate degree at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada, medical degree with honors from the University of Toronto, and a doctorate in Transplantation Immunology as a Rhodes Scholar at Magdalen College in Oxford, UK. He trained in general surgery and performed a cardiovascular surgery fellowship at the University of Toronto, thoracic surgical residency at Mayo College of Medicine and executive education at Harvard Business School.