Clinical Professor of Family Medicine Serves as FHP Chief Surgeon
After retiring from a nearly 30-year career in graduate medical education, Dr. Bradley Feuer, DO, JD, clinical professor of family medicine at the Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine, now serves full-time as chief surgeon for the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP). Dr. Feuer was appointed as Regional Director of the college’s Palm Beach Academic Center in 1996, was the first to serve as vice-president of the college’s Consortium for Excellence in Medical Education in 1999, and eventually was appointed as clinical assistant dean, in 2013. He remains active in medical education by providing lectures to his former programs.
While he remains on the college’s faculty, Dr. Feuer is now responsible for promoting the health and safety of Florida’s state troopers. With a team of two other volunteer physicians (one responsible for the state’s Northern region, the other for the Southern region), Dr. Feuer oversees a program that enhances the quality of routine, specialty and hospital care available to troopers, provides medical support to Special Response Teams, educates members on matters pertaining to health and medicine, coordinates care of sick and injured troopers by working with providers and families, provides consultation and advice to command, and offers medical direction to a state-wide peer support team. He has been a member of an Active Shooter Working Group for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and participated as a subject matter expert for a workshop on critical infrastructure Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector risk assessment for Health Human Services (HHS)/Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR).
Sworn as an auxiliary state trooper since 2003, Dr. Feuer has been a leader in the law enforcement peer support community, and has worked with the International Association of Chiefs of Police to promote the use of evidence-based concepts into the provision of peer support. While Clinical Assistant Dean and Designated Institutional Official/Regional Director of Medical Education for the Palm Beach Consortium for Graduate Medical Education (PBCGME), Dr. Feuer brought these concepts, honed in law enforcement, to GME operations. Each of PBCGME’s residency programs had residents who served as volunteer peer support team members and worked with the resources of the Consortiums Psychiatry Residency and direction of a Psychiatry attending, to provide psychological first aid in response to the needs of all residents and students, consortium wide.
“The Florida Highway Patrol is one of the nation’s premier law enforcement agencies,” he said. “To be able to serve the citizens of the State of Florida by supporting the men and women of the Patrol is a true honor.”
Posted 10/09/22