5.0★
78 Google reviews
20+
Years of experience
8 min
Avg. patient time
6+ yrs
Your UES neighbor

The Pharmacist
Behind Healarian.

Independent pharmacist. 20+ years of experience. 6+ years your neighbor on the Upper East Side. The reason this pharmacy exists is simpler than you'd expect.

Zimo, RPh

You Can Call Him
Zimo.

Zimo has been a pharmacist for over 20 years. He has spent more than a decade in New York City, and for the past 6+ years, he has lived on the Upper East Side — the same streets where his patients live, shop, and walk their dogs.

That's not a detail. That's the whole point.

When you're not just the pharmacist but also the neighbor, you take it personally. You notice when someone stops coming in. You ask about the back pain. You remember the name of the cat.

Healarian exists because chain pharmacies forgot that pharmacy is a relationship — not a transaction.

Zimo — Zimo, RPh, pharmacist and owner of Healarian Pharmacy, Upper East Side NYC
Zimo
Registered Pharmacist · Owner · UES Resident
20+
Years as a pharmacist
10+
Years in New York City
5.0
Google rating · 78 reviews
8m
Average time per patient
The Story

Why an Independent Pharmacy?

After years working in large pharmacy systems, Zimo kept running into the same wall: not enough time. 11 seconds per patient interaction. Algorithms flagging everything. No room to actually talk to the person standing in front of you.

He had patients with 8 medications who had never had a real conversation about what they were taking — or why. Elderly patients whose prescriptions hadn't been reviewed in years. People who were experiencing side effects they didn't know were from their medication.

Healarian was built to fix that. An independent pharmacy where the pharmacist has time. Where the person behind the counter knows your name, your history, and what actually matters to you. Where the average interaction isn't 11 seconds — it's 8 minutes.

Zimo's expertise spans clinical pharmacy, nutrition, fitness, and chronic disease management. He works with patients managing diabetes, hypertension, thyroid conditions, and complex multi-medication regimens — and he approaches each one as an individual, not a prescription number.

How We Practice

The Three Things
That Never Change.

We Give You Time

The chain model allocates 11 seconds per patient. We average 8 minutes. Not because we're slow — because that's what it actually takes to do pharmacy right. You can ask every question. We will not rush you.

We Tell You the Truth

If a supplement won't help you, we'll say so. If a generic is identical to the brand, we'll tell you. If something looks wrong with your medication regimen, we'll bring it up — even if you didn't ask. Honesty isn't extra. It's the baseline.

We Stay Invested

We are not the cheapest pharmacy in New York. We are the most invested. We follow up. We remember. We notice. That's the trade you make when you choose an independent pharmacy — and it's a trade Zimo believes in completely.

Pharmacy should feel like talking to the smartest friend you have who happens to know everything about medicine. That's what I'm here for.

— Zimo, Pharmacist & Owner · Healarian Pharmacy

Come Meet Us
1658 3rd Avenue.

Walk in or call. No phone tree. No hold music. Just Zimo, or one of our pharmacists, ready to actually help.