BOZEMAN SPORTS MEDICINE - Key Persons
Dr. Adams, our physician at Bozeman Sports Medicine, is a specialist in his field for one reason: to make your life an active life. An active life means hiking, skiing, playing tennis or pickleball, training hard, running a marathon, or playing on the floor with your grandkids. Whatever your dreams are, Dr. Adams' expertise can help you regain them. So when musculoskeletal injury, pain, and nerve entrapment issues stand in the way of this kind of life, it is imperative that they be healed. Not masked, not tolerated, but healed.
When you meet Dr. Adams, you will notice that there are two things that characterize his approach: First, he is interested in your goals, your dreams, and in finding a way to achieve them. Second, he believes excellence is the path towards successfully treating your condition. This commitment to excellence has been reflected in Dr. Adams' career path. He is a national expert in musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging. He is a regular presenter at national and international conferences, including an advanced ultrasound group that is developing cutting-edge evaluation and treatment methods. He is an anatomy professor in our WWAMI medical school at Montana State University. All of this experience benefits you as a patient.
Dr. Adams and his family moved to Bozeman in 2016 from Wisconsin, where he had a busy musculoskeletal practice for 15 years. His wife, Dr. Alexandra Adams, has also had a career committed to excellence. An MD/PhD herself, Dr. Alex Adams is a national expert on building community research partnerships. She is the director of CAIRHE, the Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity at Montana State University. The two Dr. Adams have three children, the oldest an engineer at SpaceX, the middle a mathematician, and the youngest a budding entrepreneur.
My vision for your health is that you are restored to full activity, without restrictions or barriers. I believe in healing, and the techniques we use at Bozeman Sports Medicine do precisely that - they heal. My goal is always an excellent outcome for each patient. It is this focus on your health that has driven me to pursue the most advanced training throughout my career.
Education
MD, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign
PhD Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Residency, University of Wisconsin
Sports Medicine Fellowship, Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine
Job Titles:
- Medical Assistant
- Practice Manager
Erin is a native of Montana, born and raised in Livingston. She attended her first two years of college at the University of Montana in Missoula, where she studied social work and was trained as a medical assistant at St. Patrick Hospital. She returned to the Livingston area and graduated from Montana State University where she earned her Associate of Science degree and a Bachelors of Science in Human Development and Family Science.
Erin and her daughters moved to Bozeman from Livingston in 2013. Shortly after, she teamed up with Dr. Erik Adams and discovered their team approach to patient care. When not in the clinic, Erin is active in the outdoors.
In her free time she prefers to be outside traveling, camping, rafting, golfing, listening to live music, watching baseball (Go Dodgers!) and sitting the sidelines of her daughters volleyball games.
Why I do what I do? I love patient care and the connections I make in medicine. Injury and illness can cause a lot of anxiety and fear in patients, my job is to make them feel welcome, at ease and comfortable with their plan of care while helping them navigate their road to recovery. Following the great Mark Twain's advice "Find a job that you love and you'll never work a day in your life" - I'm doing that, EVERY single day.
Julie was born and raised in Livingston. She has a daughter (Erin!) and a son. She has four granddaughters and 3 dogs that keep her very busy. Julie also loves spending time with her friends, traveling, camping, and following her granddaughter's volleyball games, wherever they make take her.
She worked the early part of her career for the City of Livingston, learning all there is to know about local government. She managed a nonprofit building project rehabilitating affordable housing for the underserved, spanning over 3 rural counties in Montana. She loved this work because she cares deeply about people. Julie moved to Bozeman in December 2020 and on to Townsend in 2023. She loves the rural feel of Townsend but loves the patients she gets to interact with on a daily basis in Bozeman. Julie has thrived as our Office Manager and patients love talking to her before and after their appointments.