The office is comprised of two doctors and four support staff, including the office manager. Dr. Adams is the senior physician who established the practice some 20 years ago. Dr. Stephens recently joined the practice after completing a productive fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine. Both are board certified Pediatric Gastroenterologists.

  Lawrence M. Adams, M.D.

Doctor Adams Adams brings years of expertise to you and your child. He is the first Pediatric Gastroenterologist to practice in Palm Beach County and sets the standard for those who have come later. Doctor Adams is locally and nationally renowned. His efforts on behalf of ill children have been recognized by his peers, and by patients.

He is a former Chairman of the local chapter Medical Advisory Committee of the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America. He has served as the Pediatric Medical Advisor to the local chapter of the Celiac Disease Foundation. He also served as the Division Director of Pediatrics at St. Mary's Medical Center. Currently he is the chairman of the Credential Committee at St Mary's. He has repeatedly been listed in numerous publications of the best physicians. Such listings include South Florida Magazine's "South Florida's Top Doctors", Miami Metro's "Top Docs, The Best Physicians In South Florida", the Consumers' Research Council of America "Guide to America's Top Physicians", Best Doctors, "The Best Doctors In America".

He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and member of the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition. He has been continuously board certified and recertified in Pediatric Gastroenterology since 1990.

 John Stephens, MD

Dr. Stephens was certified in pediatrics in 2002 and is a board certified Pediatric Gastroenterologist. He did his initial medical training here in Florida at the University of South Florida. Specialization in pediatric gastroenterology took place at Baylor College of Medicine's, Texas Children's Hospital, one of the highest ranked and largest children's hospitals in the nation. There, he trained under more than 15 pediatric gastroenterologists and hepatologists, and honed his gastroenterology skills.

Upon entering the fellowship program, he was awarded the competitive National Institutes of Health's Gastroenterology Research Training Grant. It was also there where he is an author in 4 peer reviewed journal articles and 5 abstracts based on his fellowship research. He has been awarded oral and poster presentations at various prestigious gastroenterological conferences including the World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition in Paris, France in 2004. All this hard work during his fellowship years accumulated with him being awarded of the top fellowship research award at Baylor College of Medicine, for his work on the effects of intravenous nutritional on small intestinal blood flow.

Upon leaving fellowship, Dr. Stephens joined Palm Beach Pediatric Gastroenterology in 2005. Since he has been here, he has devoted all his knowledge and energy to the full time care of his patients. He is a caring and compassionate person whom his patients have come to love. Since joining his partner, Dr. Adams, he has been awarded several community awards and he has become a staple in the local pediatric gastroenterology field in West Palm Beach.