Christopher Bates
CEO / President
Our mission is to build more equitable communities for the future through what we know best: sports medicine, health, and wellness.
We want athletes—and the families and neighborhoods they come from—to step into their true potential because they are finally free from disparities.
We are transcending charity, imagining justice, and establishing equity in underserved communities, one healthy athlete at a time. AT LAST, The revolution and reformation of sports medicine!
We are making sports medicine, health, and wellness programs universally accessible for active populations, particularly youth athletes, who are being underserved and underrepresented—
Who are waiting so long for treatment that they’re seeing their grades and mental health plummet, sustaining longer-term physical damage, and missing scholarships,
Whose complex injuries and recovery needs are beyond their athletic trainer’s overloaded capacity, Who don’t see themselves represented or understood by their healthcare professionals,
Who don’t have access to a Certified Athletic Trainer at all, And who are being treated more as a number than a human with unconditional worth and potential.
Founded in 2020, AT LAST began in the form of The AT Last Podcast. A group of sports medicine practitioners based in Los Angeles started sharing ideas and research to challenge the disparities faced by underserved athletes of color. We invited world leaders from different sectors—Robert Lustig, Tim Noakes, Hawk Newsome, and more—who showed up with information that impacts sports medicine from surprising angles.
These intersectional conversations form the foundation of this revolution: AWARENESS & EDUCATION. Letting people know that these disparities exist, and all of us can do something about it. Calling the field of Athletic Training & Sports Medicine to extend their expertise to the athletes who need it the most.
We are walking the talk by building EVIDENCE–BASED INITIATIVES that bridge network gaps, create exciting connections, offer access to elite surgical & rehab care, and reimagine critical encounters (like PPEs) to address needs that go beyond the musculoskeletal.
Whether you’re an INDIVIDUAL whose desperate to do something about the disparities you see, an ORGANIZATION who is zooming in to make change in a particular area, a LEADER who wants to leave a legacy for the people you serve, or a PRACTITIONER who wants to invigorate your practice & purpose by extending your skills to athletes with the least access—
YOU are invited to join the revolution in sports medicine. It is up to US to leverage our combined research, knowledge, power, skills, and high-level-sport networks to disrupt the cycle of inequality & injustice—one healthy athlete at a time.
