Speaking

Book Dr. Adams

Keynotes, workshops, panels and clinical education — delivered by a board-certified orthopaedic specialist who also signs the front of the paycheck and coaches on Saturdays.

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Why me

Not a motivational speaker. An operator who can hold a room.

Most speakers on healthcare access have never billed an insurer. Most speakers on youth development have never sat with a family whose kid just tore an ACL. I have done both this month.

  • ◆ABPTS board-certified orthopaedic clinical specialist (OCS)
  • ◆Twenty years of clinical practice — still treating, not just presenting
  • ◆Founder and operator of two organizations, both still running
  • ◆International congress experience — WCPT, Vancouver
  • ◆APTA credentialed instructor: built to teach, not just to talk
  • ◆Comfortable with a clinical audience, a boardroom, or a gym full of parents
Dr. Jerome Adams with members of the Horizon Physical Therapy team

Signature talks

Four talks, ready to run.

Each one adapts to a 20-minute keynote, a 60-minute session or a half-day workshop. Custom topics welcome — tell me the outcome you need and I will build to it.

Keynote · 45–60 min

Movement Is Medicine

Conservative care is the cheapest, safest intervention in musculoskeletal medicine — and the one we reach for last. What it costs communities when physical therapy is treated as an afterthought, and how organizations can flip that order.

Audiences: health systems, payers, public health, employer wellness, community health
Keynote · 45 min

Owning Your Lane

What it took to build and keep the only Black-owned physical therapy clinic in Flint: credibility before capital, systems before scale, and how to compete with institutions that have every advantage except proximity.

Audiences: entrepreneurship programs, chambers of commerce, minority business, PT/PTA schools
Workshop · 60–90 min

From Rehab to Recruitment

Developing young athletes who are still playing at 22. Load management, injury prevention and return-to-play — plus the honest conversation with parents about what college recruitment actually requires.

Audiences: youth sports organizations, athletic departments, coaching clinics, parent nights
Clinical education · CEU-ready

Evidence in the Hands

Manual medicine, systemic dry needling and spinal manipulation in day-to-day practice: what the evidence supports, where clinicians over-reach, and how to mentor students into competent hands-on care.

Audiences: PT and PTA programs, clinical staff, state and national associations

Formats & logistics

Easy to book. Easy to work with.

Formats

Keynote · Workshop · Panel · Fireside

From a 20-minute opening keynote to a half-day hands-on clinical workshop. Virtual sessions available.

Travel

Based in Flint, Michigan

Available nationally. Detroit and Flint Bishop airports; drivable across the Midwest.

What you get

A prepared, tailored session

Pre-event call, custom framing for your audience, handout or slide deck, and promotion to my own network.

Also available for

Media, podcasts and expert commentary

Musculoskeletal health, healthcare access, practice ownership, youth athlete development.

Enquire

Tell me about your event.

Date, audience, room size and the outcome you are after. I read every enquiry myself.

Replies within two business days.