Dr Gina Schoeman

Dr Gina Schoeman is a longevity and functional medicine physician with over 20 years of clinical experience and one of the broadest training foundations in her field. She founded The Schoeman Clinic on a conviction she formed across a long career in hospital medicine: that medicine works far better when it looks ahead.

Her early career spanned primary to tertiary care across emergency medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, ENT and dermatology. That breadth was deliberate. She wanted to understand how the body fails across every system before building a methodology for keeping it well.

She began practising functional medicine in 2004, before it was a mainstream concept in the UK, and has spent the two decades since developing the functional medicine approach that defines the clinic today. Where conventional medicine tends to treat what it can see, functional medicine looks for what caused it: the metabolic, hormonal, gut, and lifestyle drivers that sit upstream of symptoms and often go unaddressed for years. Dr Schoeman considers this not an alternative to rigorous medicine, but the logical next step in it.

Every doctor at The Schoeman Clinic is trained across all four disciplines: higher training in conventional medicine, bio-identical hormone therapy, functional medicine, and longevity medicine. That full-stack methodology is what makes it possible to investigate the whole patient rather than pass symptoms between specialists.

Dr Schoeman is a regular speaker at international longevity and medicine conferences, and a member of the Oxford Society of Ageing and Longevity, the British Society of Ecological Medicine, Longevity Docs, the Independent Doctors Federation, the Academy for Preventive and Innovative Medicine and the GMC. She holds qualifications from the Institute for Functional Medicine and WorldLink Medical’s advanced bio-identical hormone programme, alongside the MRCGP, an MBA, and a postgraduate diploma in dermatology from Cardiff University. The clinic holds full CQC registration.

Her founding philosophy is personal as much as clinical. After years of treating preventable crises in emergency departments, and after finding that conventional protocols failed her own health, she built the practice she wished had existed: one that looks 20 years ahead, connects the dots across every system, and gives patients answers rather than referrals.

Dr Schoeman founded The Schoeman Clinic to bring together clinicians who share the same passion and conviction: that treating the whole person isn’t a philosophy, it’s just good medicine.