Dr. Aleksandar Vasileski a behavioral change specialist and movement disorder specialist and Crown Point, Indiana, native describes the variety of treatment options at his AV360 Wellness facility in Algonquin, Illinois. (H. Rick Bamman / Post-Tribune)
Dr. Alex Vasileski is glad that when people meet him initially, they are often surprised to discover he is a physician.
“When people ask me what my work is, they expect to me to say professional athlete, maybe because I’m 6-foot-4, 245 lbs. and have a beard and tattoos on my arm,” said Vasileski, who graduated from Merrillville High School in 2001.
“I don’t look like what they might expect, and that’s good.”
Now a resident of Barrington Hills, Vasileski is a doctor with a ranking as a behavioral change specialist, movement disorder specialist as well as a host of other qualifications and most recently, founder of AV360 Wellness. The latter is a clinic at 2140 Lake Cook Road, Algonguin, Illinois, with the mission to help people, ranging from high performance athletes in need of building muscle strength and memory to anyone diagnosed with a chronic illness like Parkinson’s, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and others as detailed at www.av360wellness.com.
Vasileski doesn’t mind an untraditional approach to life or his medical practice, and is proud of the results he’s witnessed since he opened his clinic in May 2021, with a second location planned to open by fall.
He wears a black doctor’s coat in the office as his counter to what he describes as “the paradigm of the White Coat Theory,” which supports the idea that many become instinctively nervous in the presence of “a white coat,” as opposed to a better response to the absence of color as displayed with a black fabric professional coat covering.
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Does he do misbehaving horses? HA!