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For athletic directors and front offices
Player health as a program, not a reaction to the next injury.
A physician partner for athletic departments and professional organizations.
Roster biomarker screening, individual optimization protocols and player longevity planning, delivered alongside your existing medical and performance staff rather than around them.
- Dual board-certified
- Johns Hopkins · Harvard · MIT Sloan
- 20+ years in practice
- Philadelphia, PA
Is this you?
If this sounds like you, keep reading.
You already have a sports science or performance staff and want a physician layer on top of it.
You have invested in wearables or biometric monitoring and want someone to act on the data medically.
Player availability has cost you seasons.
Career extension is a stated priority for your organization.
You have a budget line for third-party medical or performance consulting.
Asare B. Christian, MD, MPH
Founder, Aether Medicine · Philadelphia, PA
Why patients, athletes and clinicians seek him out
One of the most sought-after longevity physicians in the country.
Dr. Asare B. Christian is one of the few physicians in the nation holding simultaneous board certifications in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Anti-Aging & Regenerative Medicine. Twenty years of clinical practice, training at Johns Hopkins, Harvard and MIT Sloan, and a practice built around one idea: measure what predicts the next twenty years, then act on it.
- Dual board-certified
- PM&R and Anti-Aging & Regenerative Medicine, held together by few physicians nationally
- Johns Hopkins · Harvard · MIT Sloan
- Residency, fellowship and MPH, and AI in healthcare at Sloan
- 20+ years
- Of clinical practice across rehabilitation, pain, metabolic and longevity medicine
- National speaker
- Regular presenter at A4M and AAPM&R; instructor at Rupa University
- Physician-led TPE
- One of few practices in the region offering therapeutic plasma exchange under a board-certified physician
- Referred by clinicians
- Physical therapists, dietitians and physicians send him the patients they cannot solve
“As a physical therapist, I often refer patients to physicians to collaborate, and my number one answer is Dr. Christian at Aether Medicine. The time, care and determination he shows his patients is uncanny.”
The model
Four parts, one season, a report your GM can read.
This does not replace anyone. Trainers own day-to-day care, team physicians own injury and illness, performance staff own load. What is usually missing is a physician whose job is the roster's internal medicine, proactively. That is the layer.
| Phase | When | Who is involved | Output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Governance | Before anything | AD or GM, team physician, compliance | Consent, data handling, scope, anti-doping review |
| Roster screening | Pre-season | Aether, athletic trainers, dietitian | A roster-level picture; per-player findings to the medical staff first |
| Individual protocols | Pre-season into in-season | Aether, team physician, S&C, dietitian | A written plan per flagged player, coordinated with your staff |
| Monitoring | In-season | Aether, sports science | Monthly trend reads; mid-season re-test where indicated |
| Reporting | Quarterly | Aether to leadership | Screened, found, corrected, changed, recommended. Written for the person who allocates the budget |
Recovery and regeneration for the players who need it
Physician-led, alongside your staff
Dual board-certified; Johns Hopkins, Harvard, MIT Sloan
What to expect
What a pilot looks like
- 1 of 4
One roster
A single team or position group, twenty to forty players.
- 2 of 4
One season
Pre-season screening, in-season monitoring, post-season re-test.
- 3 of 4
Three metrics, agreed in advance
The share of players with a correctable finding; the share corrected on re-test; and an availability measure against the prior season, read with appropriate humility.
- 4 of 4
One report
At the end, in plain language, on whether it earned its place. Priced as a program, agreed before it starts.
Aether Medicine · White paper
Player Health as a Program
A physician partnership model for athletic departments and professional organizations.
Asare B. Christian, MD, MPH · 10-minute read
Read before you decide
The white paper written for you.
- The availability problem
- What existing staff cover, and the gap
- The four-part model
- Governance, privacy and anti-doping
- What a one-roster pilot looks like
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Questions we hear
Straight answers, before the first visit.
No. Scope is written before anything starts. Aether does not make return-to-play decisions, does not replace the team physician, and communicates with players only through the agreed channels.
Every player consents individually. Findings go to the player and the medical staff; leadership sees aggregate and program-level information unless a player agrees otherwise. Data handling is settled in governance before the first draw.
Every recommendation is checked against your governing body's prohibited list before it is made, and anything requiring a Therapeutic Use Exemption goes through your compliance process. It is a governance requirement of the partnership.
It is priced as a program for one roster and one season, and the number is agreed before it starts. That conversation is the first one we have.
Telehealth Available
You do not have to live near Philadelphia to be our patient.
Hormone and metabolic care is mostly conversation, laboratory work and adjustment over time. All three travel well. Patients across Pennsylvania do this with us on video, with their blood drawn close to home.
Where this is available. Dr. Christian is licensed in Pennsylvania, so telehealth is available to patients who are in Pennsylvania at the time of the visit. If you are elsewhere, the office in the Philadelphia area sees patients in person.
- Step 1
A consult on video
Your history, your symptoms and what you want to change, with the physician rather than an intake form.
- Step 2
Labs drawn near you
We send the order to a draw site close to home. You do not travel for a blood test.
- Step 3
Results read together
We go through the panel on screen, and you leave with the plan written down rather than a portal message.
- Step 4
Follow-up on video
Re-testing and adjustments happen on the same schedule they would in the office.
A conversation, not a pitch
Thirty minutes about your roster and your season.
Dr. Christian meets athletic directors and front-office leaders personally.
Tell us about your organization, your roster and your season. Dr. Christian will follow up personally within one business day.
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