1. Early life and education

2. Career

3. References

Dr. Peter Alan Bell D.O.^[1] (born January 21, 1958) is an American doctor of osteopathic medicine. He has been President of the Ohio Osteopathic Association and National President of The American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians, and has represented the Osteopathic profession in National Health Policy concerns.

Early life and education

Bell was born in Abington, Pennsylvania, on January 21, 1958 to Clyde H. Bell and Dorothy B. Bell. His family moved to Penfield, NY where Bell was a resident until his graduation of High school in 1976.

After obtaining an undergraduate degree at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY in 1980, he then attended the University of New England where he obtained his medical degree in Osteopathic Medicine in 1984.^[2]

Post-graduation, Bell completed a residency in family medicine, at the Metropolitan Hospital/Parkview, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1985–1986. Bell then went on to complete a second residency in Emergency Medicine, at Grandview Hospital and Medical Center, located Dayton, Ohio from 1986–1988.

In 2008, Bell graduated first in his class from Ohio University's Executive Masters in Business Program.

Career

In 1988, Bell became the emergency department medical director at Doctors Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. In 1991, Bell founded the emergency medicine residency program at Doctors Hospital and since then has helped establish emergency medicine programs in the midwestern United States.

Ohio University College of Medicine (now the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine) hired Bell as a regional dean in 1995 under Dr. Barbara Ross-Lee. In 2014, OUHCOM expanded and opened two more campuses in Dublin, OH and Cleveland, OH. Bell works primarily at the Dublin, Ohio campus and has helped build the new program.

Bell graduated in 2000 from the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) National Health Policy Fellowship. He was chairman of the Ohio Osteopathic Association Health Policy Committee since 2002. Bell's focus has been on cost, quality and access to care as well as tort reform.

From 1995–2004, Bell was editors on the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Medicine Newsletter, The Pulse. He also was on the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine Advisory Board from 2011–present, and joined the editorial board in 2013.

On February 24, 2017, Bell was appointed dean of the Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine.^[3]

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