A private professional institute
Practice the medicine you trained for.
Healthopia Institute trains and certifies licensed clinicians in evidence-based, preventive brain health — and connects them with patients who are looking for exactly that.
Everything a serious clinician checks first.
Who is behind this
Named faculty and leadership, by tier, with financial disclosures on every card.
What the evidence shows
What is well supported, what is genuinely uncertain, and our validation roadmap.
Whether the credential is real
Requirements, passing standards, annual recertification, and published revocation grounds.
Whether there is permanence
Governance: clinical, scientific, standards, and ethics committees, and who sits on them.
Prevention is medicine. This is how it is practiced.
A substantial share of dementia risk at the population level is associated with factors that are modifiable: vascular risk, sleep, physical activity, diet, hearing, mood, social and cognitive engagement. That association is well documented. It is also routinely overstated.
Randomized multidomain lifestyle intervention has shown modest benefit on composite cognitive test batteries. It has not been shown to prevent, treat, or reverse dementia in an individual patient, and no honest program should imply otherwise. We publish what the evidence does not yet show alongside what it does.
What is actionable today is a structured, repeatable way to assess these domains, to prioritize them, and to support behavior change between visits — delivered by a licensed clinician who retains full clinical judgment. That is what the Institute trains and certifies.
Founding cohort
The first clinicians shape the standard.
We are certifying a founding cohort of clinicians in Arizona, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Montana, New Mexico. Founding affiliates receive founding terms, advisory input, and public recognition.
Programs built to the same standard.
Brain Health
The first program: a structured multidomain assessment and lifestyle protocol for cognitive health, delivered in the clinician's own practice.
Program detail →
Additional programs in development
Programs follow the same standard: published protocol, published evidence dossier, published limitations, faculty-reviewed certification.
Named faculty. Public disclosures.
Dean SherzaiMD, PhD
Co-Founder and Chair, Clinical Governance Committee
Behavioral neurologist focused on modifiable risk factors and multidomain lifestyle intervention.
Ayesha SherzaiMD, MAS
Co-Founder and Director of Curriculum
Vascular neurologist and behavior-change clinician; leads curriculum design and faculty review.
Faculty seat: sleep medicineMD, board-certified sleep medicine
Core faculty
Appointment in progress. Named faculty and disclosures will be published before the founding cohort begins.
Faculty seat: nutritionPhD, RD
Core faculty
Appointment in progress. Named faculty and disclosures will be published before the founding cohort begins.