Dr. Mark Aloia
Behavioral Health Strategy
Dr. Aloia’s focus on behavioral methods to improve adherence to treatment has made significant contributions to the sleep and health psychology fields. His studies include a strong focus on promoting positive health behaviors using theoretical models of behavior change and bringing theory into practice by incorporating these ideas into mobile applications and new sensor technology. He has also worked extensively with industry leading behavior change and research in both large healthcare companies and in the consumer space. He is a scientific advisor and leads the behavioral health strategy for Orbit Telehealth and Barky Health, two of Dr. Barnes’ healthcare companies.
Dr. Aloia is Associate Professor of Medicine at National Jewish Health in Denver, CO. He has also been on the faculty at the University of Rochester and at Brown University as a prominent health researcher. Dr. Aloia has studied health behavior change for the past 25 years and maintains NIH funding with over $15M in funding to study health behavior change. He serves as an NIH grant reviewer and has published over 50 scientific papers in high quality journals. Dr. Aloia has also served on the Editorial Boards of the journals Sleep, Health Psychology, and Behavioral Sleep Medicine. He has edited a book on Behavioral Treatment for Sleep Disorders that has been translated into multiple languages.
Dr. Aloia’s focus on behavioral methods to improve adherence to treatment has made significant contributions to the sleep and health psychology fields. His studies include a strong focus on promoting positive health behaviors using theoretical models of behavior change and bringing theory into practice by incorporating these ideas into mobile applications and new sensor technology. He has also worked extensively with industry leading behavior change and research in both large healthcare companies and in the consumer space. He is a scientific advisor and leads the behavioral health strategy for Orbit Telehealth and Barky Health, two of Dr. Barnes’ healthcare companies.
Nikki credits most of her success with clients to navigating the rocky road of healing her own body. She developed her methods as a result of her own personal quest for strength, freedom, resilience and longevity. She was a highly competitive gymnast and athlete for the larger part of her life until she was completely sidelined with severe pain, dysfunction and depression in her early 20’s. When doctors told her she needed to stop doing what she loved and opt for heavy duty medications to maybe achieve a sense of normalcy, she was devastated BUT had a deep knowing that there was another way. Feeling stuck in her body, she refused to accept the limitations it was showing her and knew it was asking for deeper healing. It was then that she began walking her own personal path to reactivate her original blueprint of health and wellness.
After 25 years of personal experimentation – having tried it all- and coaching 1,000’s of clients toward success, Nikki has learned that addressing the fascia first and foremost is the key to restoring health throughout the body on every level. Through the combination of science, experience and wisdom, Nikki has cultivated an incredible ability to meet people where they are and create a simplified, personal path for their own success. She brings compassion, enthusiasm and inspiration to each of her clients while offering a logical, systematic approach for achieving results often thought to be impossible. Her methods are “whole body” centered addressing trauma, stress, movement, nutrition, hydration and sleep in order to facilitate deep healing at the cellular level.
Barky Health is a company of Dr. Mark Barnes which serves as a launch point for MFR Health, BackLab, and his provider training and education courses.
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Barky Health Inc.
2516 Broadway Suite 200, Boulder, CO 80304