Grant Zarzour, MD

Surgeon. Entrepreneur. Healthcare Reformer.

"Unlock more years, live more life."

Founder of Sperity Health. One of the highest-volume total joint surgeons in America. A nationally recognized voice on executive longevity, employer healthcare strategy, and why the sick care model is failing businesses.

650+ Knee replacements
per year
8 National speaking
engagements
7+ Years on Lantern
advisory board
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Grant Zarzour, MD
About
The Surgeon Who Builds Systems

Dr. Grant Zarzour is a fellowship-trained total joint surgeon based in Mobile, Alabama, performing over 650 knee replacements per year. That volume places him among the highest-performing total joint surgeons in the country.

But Grant isn't just an operator. He's a builder. As Founder and CEO of Sperity Health, he's pioneering a new approach to healthcare that's proactive, not reactive. Sperity's model uses advanced diagnostics, continuous monitoring, and a proprietary Health Score to uncover insights that change lives before disease takes hold. Their philosophy: Medicine 3.0 means early detection, personalized action, and the right doctor at the right time.

Grant sits at the intersection of clinical excellence, entrepreneurship, and healthcare reform. He brings audiences a perspective that almost no other speaker can: a surgeon who has done thousands of procedures, built a company to fix what's broken in the system, and can translate it all into language that business leaders, HR executives, and entrepreneurs understand.

At a Glance

  • 650+ knee replacements/year
  • Founder & CEO, Sperity Health
  • President, Southern Orthopaedic Alliance
  • YPO Southern 7 Chapter Vice-Chair
  • 7+ years, Lantern Medical Advisory Board
  • Co-Founder, The Fuse Project (nonprofit)
  • Whiddon College of Medicine, Univ. of South Alabama
“Ask your surgeon how many procedures they do. If they get upset by your question, run.”
— Grant Zarzour, MD
Speaking Topics
What Grant Speaks About
Grant delivers high-impact presentations for employer groups, healthcare conferences, YPO/EO forums, and executive leadership events. Topics are tailored to each audience.
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Executive Health & Personal Performance
For leaders who want to perform at their peak for decades, not just quarters.
Keynote

The CEO's Body: Why High-Performers Get Healthcare Wrong

You optimize your business obsessively, but when was the last time you optimized your body? Grant breaks down why the executives who run the hardest are often the worst at preventive care, and introduces the Medicine 3.0 framework for proactive health that adds years to your life and life to your years.

Keynote

Longevity Is a Business Strategy: Unlocking More Years to Build

Most entrepreneurs plan their business 10 years out but never plan their health past next quarter. Grant shares the science of executive longevity, the diagnostics that catch problems years before symptoms appear, and why the most important ROI you'll ever earn is on your own body.

Workshop

Joints, Mobility & the Aging Entrepreneur

Your knees, hips, and shoulders aren't just body parts. They're the foundation of your active lifestyle, your stress relief, your ability to keep up with your kids. A top joint surgeon shares what every active leader should know about protecting mobility, avoiding unnecessary surgery, and staying in the game.

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Business Impact & Healthcare Innovation
For business owners rethinking how healthcare costs, quality, and talent retention intersect.
Keynote

Your Benefits Plan Is Lying to You: How Employers Can Identify World-Class Surgeons

Most employer health plans have no framework for evaluating surgical quality. Grant reveals the data-driven markers that separate elite surgeons from average ones, why volume matters more than you think, and how the wrong surgeon costs your company six figures per bad outcome.

Keynote

From Sick Care to Health Care: The Employer Direct Care Revolution

America doesn't have a healthcare system. It has a sick care system. Grant shares how Sperity Health is building an employer-direct model that connects businesses to top-tier surgical networks, proactive diagnostics, and outcomes-based medicine. It's not just better care. It's a competitive advantage for hiring and retaining talent.

Workshop

The $50,000 Surgery Your Employee Didn't Need

Up to 30% of surgeries may be unnecessary. Grant exposes the systemic incentives driving overtreatment, explains how quality-based networks protect employees and bottom lines, and gives employers a practical framework for evaluating their surgical spend.

For EO & YPO Chapters

Grant is a YPO member (Southern 7 Chapter, Vice-Chair) and speaks the language of entrepreneurial leaders. These sessions are purpose-built for forum retreats, chapter learning events, and regional conferences.

The Surgeon-Entrepreneur: Building Sperity While Performing 650 Surgeries a Year

How Grant runs a high-volume surgical practice and simultaneously builds a healthcare startup. Real talk on time management, building teams, managing risk, and why surgeons make natural entrepreneurs.

Forum / Chapter Event / 45-60 min

Your Body Is Your Most Important Asset: A Surgeon's Playbook for Executive Longevity

An interactive session where Grant walks YPO/EO members through the specific diagnostics, metrics, and lifestyle protocols that the world's top performers use to add healthy decades. Includes a personal action plan framework.

Learning Event / Retreat / 60-90 min

Disrupting a $4 Trillion Industry from the Inside

The entrepreneurial story behind Sperity Health: spotting the opportunity from the operating table, validating the model, raising capital, and building a company that challenges the largest industry in America.

Keynote / Regional Conference / 30-45 min
Speaking History
Where Grant Has Spoken
Media & Podcasts
In the Press
Podcast

“From Joint Replacement to Proactive Longevity”

Becker’s Healthcare Podcast — March 2026

Podcast

“Upstream Medicine”

The Hatch Podcast — November 2025

Podcast

“The Future of Preventive Healthcare”

The Fit Method Podcast — 2025

Recognition

Becker’s “10 Total Joint Physicians to Know”

Becker’s ASC Review — 2021

Credentials
Professional Background

Leadership & Entrepreneurship

  • Founder & CEO, Sperity Health (2024–Present)
  • President, Southern Orthopaedic Alliance (2024–Present)
  • Vice-Chair, YPO Southern 7 Chapter (2024–Present)
  • President, Gulf Orthopaedics
  • Co-Founder & Chairman, The Fuse Project (2012–Present)
  • Board Member, Alabama Orthopaedic Society
  • Board Member, Springhill Medical Center
  • Former President, Alabama Orthopaedic Society (2023)

Clinical & Education

  • Fellowship: Adult Reconstruction, Mississippi Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Center
  • Whiddon College of Medicine, University of South Alabama
  • University of Georgia (Undergraduate)
  • 650+ knee replacements annually
  • 7+ years in Lantern’s high-performance surgeon network
  • Lantern Specialty Care Medical Advisory Board
  • Mobile Bay Magazine “40 Under 40” (2018)
  • AL.com Young Professional Leader Award (2015)
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Grant delivers compelling, practical talks that leave audiences with new frameworks for thinking about health, business, and the systems that connect them.

Keynotes YPO / EO Forums Corporate Events Panel Discussions Workshops
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