Newmarket-area doctor Ali Mohajerani said he believes that the health system needs to be doing more to help people address the risks of aging sooner.
A longtime doctor in emergency medicine, Mohajerani has a passion for addressing the impacts of aging and wants to work to address it from both a functional health and esthetic perspective.
“We are still very focused on the stage of disease, the disease is established. We have ignored the process that it starts many, many years, a few decades before that,” he said. “The age to start looking after your health is as early as possible, as young as possible.”
That's why Mohajerani said he opened New Health Frontiers Clinics in Newmarket at 72 Prospect St. After opening its doors in October, it held a grand opening celebration and ribbon cutting with Mayor John Taylor Feb. 18.
The new clinic specializes in cosmetic and skin services, offering regimens designed to help people maintain a youthful appearance. These include automated skin and facial assessments, laser treatments, microneedling and botox.
Beyond preventive and aging health services, the clinic offers long-term data recording and personal medicine, aiming to ensure people maintain good long-term health care.
Mohajerani said that health treatment is about function in addition to form. He said things associated with beauty are correlated with health benefits.
The esthetic medicine industry “tried to mimic those features without paying much attention to the function behind them,” he said. “Rather than just giving the people their feature beauty with plastic surgeries and removing the fat, it makes more sense to change their lifestyle and diet and get rid of that fat and give them muscle. That’s beautiful and that’s functional and that’s correlated with quality of life. That’s what we’re trying to do.”
Dr. Ahmad Nosrati, also with the clinic, said they are combining science and art.
“We basically incorporate some sort of science and then work from inside, work from outside,” he said, adding they use the “ most advanced technology in the market.”
Mohajerani moved to Canada from Iran in 2006, doing his family medicine residency in Manitoba. He started practising full-time emergency medicine in the Niagara region in 2014, but also said he has maintained a home in Richmond Hill.
He said opening a clinic in Newmarket was a way to practise medicine closer to home.
“You want to feel a connection to the community that you’re serving. I want this to be part of the community,” he said. “It’s not just a business for us …. We believe we have things to contribute to the community.”