Vânia Assaly, MD
Founder & Medical Director — Endocrinology & Nutrology · Instituto Assaly Medicina Personalizada
Founder-director, endocrinologist, and nutrologist behind Decode You and Assaly's lifestyle-medicine model
About
Vânia Assaly, MD is the founder and medical director of Instituto Assaly. She trained in medicine at UNESP Botucatu, specialized in Endocrinology and Metabolism at USP, earned Nutrology certification through the Brazilian medical system, and completed Integrative Medicine postgraduate work at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein. Her career spans roughly four decades in clinical practice and three decades in personalized longevity medicine. She created Decode You, the clinic's genetics-led prevention program, and serves as Scientific Director of LALMA and Brazil Ambassador for ELMO.
What to Know
Signature approach
Assaly works from a post-genomic prevention model: predictive genetic information, biomarkers, metabolomic context, and patient history are interpreted through lifestyle-medicine pillars. The chair-side output is a plan for food, supplementation, movement, sleep, stress, connection, and risk reduction. Her clinical aim is to identify pre-disease dysfunction early enough to extend time in health.
What sets them apart
- Field leadership. LALMA Scientific Director and ELMO Brazil Ambassador roles place her in the regional lifestyle-medicine conversation, not only in private practice.
- Creator of Decode You. The clinic's flagship genetic-testing-plus-care program was built from her clinical experience.
- Conventional-to-integrative bridge. UNESP, USP, Nutrology, and Albert Einstein Integrative Medicine connect standard endocrinology with the personalized-prevention model Assaly is known for.
Before You Book
- Visit format: In-person at the Jardim Paulista clinic, Monday through Friday.
- Care focus: Adult and longevity-stage prevention, metabolic health, hormone work, weight, and integrative oncology support.
- Schedule context: Clinical care runs alongside speaking, education, and leadership commitments, so confirm availability early.
- Language: Portuguese is the working clinical language; she also presents in English internationally.
Expertise
Focus areas
Patient types
Protocols & technologies
Credentials
Education
MD
Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP Botucatu) (1986)
Especialização em Endocrinologia e Metabologia, Endocrinology and Metabolism
Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Aperfeiçoamento em Endocrinologia e Metabologia, Endocrinology and Metabolism
Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Especialização em Nutrologia, Nutrology
Associação Brasileira de Nutrologia (ABRAN/AMB)
Pós-graduação em Medicina Integrativa, Integrative Medicine
Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein
Board certifications
Especialização em Endocrinologia e Metabologia
Universidade de São Paulo (USP) — recognized by AMB / CFM
Brazilian medical specialization in Endocrinology and Metabolism — the formal recognized credential for endocrinology practice in Brazil.
Especialização em Nutrologia
Associação Brasileira de Nutrologia (ABRAN/AMB)
Brazilian medical specialization in Nutrology — clinical nutrition as a recognized medical specialty.
Additional certifications
CRM 58002 (São Paulo)
Conselho Regional de Medicina do Estado de São Paulo (CRM-SP)
Brazilian medical license — São Paulo state medical council registration. Equivalent to a US state medical license.
Pós-graduação em Medicina Integrativa
Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein — Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa
Postgraduate program in Integrative Medicine at one of Brazil's leading academic hospitals.
Scientific Director
Latin American Lifestyle Medicine Association (LALMA)
Sets scientific direction for the regional society that translates lifestyle-medicine evidence into clinical practice across Latin America.
Brazil Ambassador
European Lifestyle Medicine Organization (ELMO)
Public-facing representative of ELMO in Brazil, listed on the organization's worldwide ambassadors registry.
Years in practice
39
Affiliations
Thought Leadership
Media Appearances
- Transforming Longevity Science into Clinical Practice in the Post-Genomic Era · Sciinov Global Longevity Federation Conference
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