About Us

Medical Alliance for Healthspan and Awareness (MAHA) provides health maintenance, health promotion, and diagnosis/treatment using the full toolbox: allopathic medicine, lifestyle medicine, and natural therapies. We help patients prevent illness, manage complex conditions, and build habits that extend healthspan—so you can live stronger, longer.

Our Approach

Whole-person care: Evidence-based + natural approaches where appropriate.

Prevent + treat: From prevention and performance to complex conditions.

Experienced leadership: 25+ years of frontline and academic medical expertise.

Personalized plans: Clear, practical steps you can follow and sustain.

Improved outcomes: Actionable plans, measurable goals, attainable results.

Our Services

Health Maintenance & Promotion – Risk assessment, labs, imaging studies, and tailored prevention plans.

Brain Health & Cognitive Optimization – Comprehensive evaluation and personalized strategies to support memory, focus, and long-term cognitive vitality.

Diagnosis & Treatment – Evidence-based evaluation and management of acute and chronic conditions.

Lifestyle Medicine – Nutrition, sleep, stress, movement, and insight into how to improve good habits and avoid risky habits.

Natural & Integrative Therapies – Safe, appropriate natural treatments that complement medical care.

Follow-Up & Monitoring – Measurable goals, adjustments as you improve, and patient initiated check-ins welcome and encouraged.

Jay Bernstein,

MD, MPH, MHAMD, MPH, MS, FACEP

Jay Bernstein, MD, MPH, MHAMD, MPH, MS, FACEP

Founder & Medical Director, Medical Alliance for Healthspan and Awareness

About Jay Bernstein, MD, MPH, MS, FACEP

Dr. Bernstein studied biochemistry and chemistry at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, then two years of research at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He earned his MD from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1994. Dr. Bernstein completed a general surgery internship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, internal medicine internship at Tufts University/Newton-Wellesley hospital, and then completed an Academic Emergency Medicine residency at Boston University in 1999. Dr. Bernstein earned a Masters in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, a Masters in Healthcare Administration from Rosalind Franklin University, and he completed a fellowship in Occupational & Environmental Medicine at the University of Cincinnati.

Across 25+ years in practice, Dr. Bernstein has held numerous leadership positions in emergency medicine and EMS, and has clinical experience in occupational medicine, outpatient surgery, and academic medicine and medical school faculty administration. Clinically, he’s comfortable managing complex problems—injuries, infections, toxicological emergencies, cancer-related complications—and he integrates lifestyle medicine and natural treatments to reduce risk and promote durable health. Dr. Bernstein is a retired U.S. Army National Guard Major after serving for 21 years. His service also includes being a Company Commander, and combat in Kuwait during Operation Enduring Freedom. Dr. Bernstein is licensed in Ohio, Florida, Texas, and Colorado and is committed to rigorous, compassionate, and practical care that helps patients prevent disease, recover well, and extend their healthspan.

MICHELLE O’CONNELL KATZ

Michelle Katz,

Integrative Story Medicine Coach

Michelle Katz,

Integrative Story Medicine Coach

Rewiring the Nervous System Through Story, Somatics, & Ancestral Wisdom

About Michelle Katz

Michelle Katz is an Integrative Story Medicine Coach who helps clients rewire the nervous system, shift limiting beliefs, and transform long-held emotional patterns through a blend of story work, somatic awareness, neuroplasticity, energy healing, and ancestral wisdom.

Her work grew out of her own profound healing journey. After developing a debilitating chronic illness in 2014, Michelle spent years recovering through functional nutrition, detoxification, brain repair, somatic practices, and indigenous ceremonial work. This experience taught her that our stories — especially the ones our bodies hold — can either keep us ill or guide us back to wholeness.

Michelle holds a B.A. from Brandeis University, an M.A. from NYU’s Gallatin School, studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, and is trained in Level One Reiki. She is also the author of the forthcoming memoir Awakening in An Age of Metals, the Substack publication Broken & Healed, and host of the Broken & Healed Podcast (Top 100 in Alternative Health in Israel), where she explores trauma recovery, nervous-system healing, and spiritual transformation.

How She Works

Clients come to Michelle when they are stuck on their healing journey — and she specializes in supporting those navigating chronic illness and trauma by assisting them in removing blocks through guided writing, mindset shifts, and breathwork and meditation suggestions. Through narrative reframing, she helps clients create coherence, clarity, and emotional freedom.

Michelle’s mission is to offer grounded, compassionate, trauma-informed space where clients can reclaim their health, their story, and their voice — becoming the most embodied version of who they’re here to be.

Michelle Katz

Integrative Story Medicine Coach

Jay Bernstein, MD, MPH, MHAMD, MPH, MS, FACEP

Rewiring the Nervous System Through Story, Somatics, & Ancestral Wisdom

Michelle Katz

Michelle Katz is an Integrative Story Medicine Coach who helps clients rewire the nervous system, shift limiting beliefs, and transform long-held emotional patterns through a blend of story work, somatic awareness, neuroplasticity, energy healing, and ancestral wisdom.

Her work grew out of her own profound healing journey. After developing a debilitating chronic illness in 2014, Michelle spent years recovering through functional nutrition, detoxification, brain repair, somatic practices, and indigenous ceremonial work. This experience taught her that our stories — especially the ones our bodies hold — can either keep us ill or guide us back to wholeness.

Michelle holds a B.A. from Brandeis University, an M.A. from NYU’s Gallatin School, studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, and is trained in Level One Reiki. She is also the author of the forthcoming memoir Awakening in An Age of Metals, the Substack publication Broken & Healed, and host of the Broken & Healed Podcast (Top 100 in Alternative Health in Israel), where she explores trauma recovery, nervous-system healing, and spiritual transformation.

How She Works

Clients come to Michelle when they are stuck on their healing journey — and she specializes in supporting those navigating chronic illness and trauma by assisting them in removing blocks through guided writing, mindset shifts, and breathwork and meditation suggestions. Through narrative reframing, she helps clients create coherence, clarity, and emotional freedom.

Michelle’s mission is to offer grounded, compassionate, trauma-informed space where clients can reclaim their health, their story, and their voice — becoming the most embodied version of who they’re here to be.

Our Expertise

At MAHA, we bring together deep clinical expertise and a commitment to whole-person care. From managing complex medical problems and emergencies to integrating lifestyle medicine, natural treatments, and preventive strategies, our approach is rooted in evidence, experience, and compassion. We specialize in brain health, memory, cognition, occupational and environmental medicine, public health, toxicology, and infectious disease management — giving you a trusted partner in every stage of your health journey.

Brain Health, Cognition,

& Memory

Complex Medical Problem Management & Emergency Care

Lifestyle Medicine & Natural Treatment Integration

Occupational & Environmental

Medicine

Toxicology & Infectious Disease Management

Public Health Strategy & Healthcare Leadership

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