Clinical team and faculty
Every clinician is listed with credentials, condition focus, and their financial relationship with the Institute. Seats that are filled but not yet announced are labelled as seats rather than presented as named appointments.
Leadership
Dean Sherzai
MD, PhD
Co-Founder and Chair, Clinical Governance
Behavioral neurology, cognitive assessment
Behavioral neurologist whose work centers on modifiable risk factors for cognitive decline and on translating multidomain lifestyle intervention research into ordinary outpatient practice. Chairs the clinical protocol and its revision cycle.
Disclosures: Co-founder and equity holder in Healthopia Institute; teaching honoraria. Practices independently through his own neurology practice.
Ayesha Sherzai
MD, MAS
Co-Founder and Director of Curriculum
Vascular neurology, behavioral medicine
Vascular neurologist and behavior-change clinician. Leads curriculum design, case-application review standards, and faculty development across the Institute's clinical programs.
Disclosures: Co-founder and equity holder in Healthopia Institute; teaching honoraria. Practices independently through her own neurology practice.
Core clinical faculty
Clinical seat: movement disorders
MD, fellowship-trained in movement disorders
Core clinical faculty
Parkinson's disease, tremor, gait
Movement-disorder care and the tremor and Parkinson's protocols are authored and reviewed by a fellowship-trained movement-disorder neurologist. The clinician's name, credentials, and disclosures are published at appointment announcement.
Disclosures: Teaching honorarium. Full disclosure published at announcement.
Clinical seat: headache medicine
MD, UCNS-certified headache medicine
Core clinical faculty
Headache and facial pain
The headache pathway — preventive strategy, acute treatment sequencing, and CGRP-era decision points — is authored and reviewed by a headache-medicine specialist.
Disclosures: Teaching honorarium. Full disclosure published at announcement.
Clinical seat: sleep medicine
MD, board-certified sleep medicine
Core clinical faculty
Sleep medicine
Sleep evaluation, testing thresholds, and treatment of apnea and insomnia are reviewed by a board-certified sleep physician.
Disclosures: Teaching honorarium. Full disclosure published at announcement.
Clinical seat: neuromuscular medicine
MD, fellowship-trained in neuromuscular medicine
Core clinical faculty
Neuropathy, nerve and muscle disease
Neuropathy work-up, electrodiagnostic interpretation, and pain-management sequencing are authored by a neuromuscular specialist.
Disclosures: Teaching honorarium. Full disclosure published at announcement.
Clinical seat: neuroimmunology
MD, fellowship-trained in neuroimmunology
Core clinical faculty
Multiple sclerosis and post-viral syndromes
MS diagnosis, disease-modifying therapy selection, and post-viral neurologic care are reviewed by a neuroimmunology specialist.
Disclosures: Teaching honorarium. Full disclosure published at announcement.
Clinical seat: neurorehabilitation
MD/DO, board-certified brain injury medicine
Core clinical faculty
Concussion, TBI, stroke recovery
Return-to-activity protocols, post-concussive symptom management, and stroke-recovery pathways are authored by a brain-injury and rehabilitation physician.
Disclosures: Teaching honorarium. Full disclosure published at announcement.
Scientific advisory
Clinical seat: neuropsychology
PhD, board-certified clinical neuropsychology
Scientific advisory
Cognitive and attention testing
Test-battery selection, normative data choices, and interpretation standards for the Institute's neurological assessments are reviewed by a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist.
Disclosures: Advisory honorarium. Full disclosure published at announcement.
Clinicians affiliated with Healthopia Institute practice independently. Faculty affiliation means the clinician contributes to the Institute's protocols and education and meets its published standards. It is not a guarantee of outcomes and not an endorsement of individual clinical competence.
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