East Greenwich Doctor Brings Love of Motorcycles to International Panel

When Herbert J. “Hub” Brennan, DO, isn’t practicing medicine, you might find him out on two wheels off the beaten path.

An avid and lifelong off-road motorcyclist, Brennan, President of Kent Hospital Medical Staff and a partner in Brennan, Cronin and Peters Internal Medicine in East Greenwich, can now put his passion for the sport and medical expertise together for good use.

Brennan has been appointed to the International Medical Panel of the Federation Internationale de Motocyclisme, the world governing body for motorcycle sport.

The FIM represents 107 national motorcycle federations dividied in six continental unions and Brennan is one of four U.S. representatives to the organization and the sole U.S. physician on the medical panel.

“I am at once humbled and extremely honored to have been selected to the panel,” Brennan said.. “While motorcycling here in the United States and in much of Europe is largely an endeavor of leisure and sport, many developing countries employ the motorcycle as a mainstay of basic family transportation and local economic infrastructure. I look forward to working with our chairman, Doctor David McManus and my colleagues on the panel to help make motorcycling worldwide, as safe as it is enjoyable for all of us who ride on two wheels.”

Brennan, 57, is a member of the Rhode Island Trials Club, New England Trials Association and the American Motorcyclist Association. He holds an international medical licenses as the chief medical officer of the FIM.

He was appointed to the panel at the FIM Annual congress in November in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain.