OPI Produces Documentary on Asperger Syndrome

Woodland Hills, CA – A student film offering insight into the difficulties a young adult with Asperger Syndrome has as he struggles to interact with peers and participate in ordinary activities will headline a talk given by Robert F. Fischer, M.D at the NATSAP conference in La Jolla in February. Also featured is an interview…

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OPI awarded Excellence in Education Award

OPI was honored to receive an “Excellence in Education Award” from Woodbury Reports as a result of being included in their Parent Empowerment Handbook 2005/06. Only a small group of Programs in the U.S. are included in the handbook, “on the basis of their excellent reputation of producing positive and consistent results with at-risk children…

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Film Maker is New Mentor at OPI

Woodland Hills, CA – Michael Andreen, former executive vice president at Warner Independent Pictures and senior vice president for production at 20th Century Fox, is the newest mentor at the Optimum Performance Institute. He joins a Nobel Prize winning physicist, a Grammy-nominated drummer, a realtor, a fashion designer and a surgeon (among others) who work…

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OPI Participant on Panel Discussing Future of Video Game Industry

WOODLAND HILLS, CA – An OPI Participant who is a world-class computer game competitor and developer, but who has decided he would rather study psychology, was part of a panel of experts discussing the future of the gaming industry at the recent QuakeCon 2006 convention in Dallas, TX. The QuakeCon gaming convention is considered the…

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OPI Participants Return from Peru

Woodland Hills, CA- Optimum Performance Institute Participants are back after a dramatic trip to Peru where they spent 10 days visiting the Land of the Incas including Machu Picchu and the Manu Wildlife Center in the Peruvian Amazon Basin. They were be accompanied by Program Director, Joseph Roberson. The customized trip was organized by Geographic…

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OPI Students Complete Coursework

OPI Living Success Story

Woodland Hills, CA – The Optimum Performance Institute announces that one Participant just received his Conditional Real Estate License and another has finished all the courses needed to get his massage therapy license. Jeremy S. plans to open his own massage therapy spa. He is now working to complete the internship hours needed to be…

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OPI Participants Climb Machu Picchu

For Joseph Roberson, OPI Program Director, the result of his adventure earlier this month in the Land of the Incas was that “we (have been) forever denied the possibility of discounting the power of the human spirit.” For Chris H., one of four OPI Participants who accompanied him on the trip to Machu Picchu, the…

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Nobel Laureate is OPI Mentor

David J. Gross, Ph.D., winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering how the nucleus of an atom works, is the newest mentor at the Optimum Performance Institute. Dr. Gross is the director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara. OPI Participants often attend lectures at the Kavli Institute.…

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Additional Psychiatrist Joins OPI

The Optimum Performance Institute is pleased to announce that Janet Martin, Ph.D., M.D, has joined OPI as consulting psychiatrist. Dr. Martin graduates in June from the University of California, Irvine Medical School. She is the chief resident at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Dr. Martin holds a doctorate in neurobiology and behavior. She joins…

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OPI Participants Going to Peru

Between 8-10 Optimum Performance Institute Participants will be spending two weeks late this summer in the Land of the Incas: Machu Picchu and the Urubanba Valley and the Manu Wildlife Center in the Peruvian Amazon Basin. They will be accompanied by OPI staff. The customized trip is being organized by Geographic Expeditions, a San Francisco-based…

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OPI Participants Hear Cutting-Edge Scientific Theories

Students at the Optimum Performance Institute continue to learn about new, cutting-edge scientific theories and techniques at “chalk talks” held at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KTIP) located on the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara. Recently they attended a lecture by a physicist who won the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious prize…

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Two OPI Participants Graduate From Culinary School

OPI Living Success Story

Woodland Hills, CA – Nearly 200 people including family and friends from as far away as Hong Kong and Texas attended a seven-course banquet March 26 prepared by chefs graduating from the Westlake Culinary Institute Professional Program in Westlake Village, CA. Among the 22 graduates honored during ceremonies were Scott L. and Kate M. who attend…

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