Rhode Island physician Herbert J. “Hub” Brennan, DO, and Kent Hospital medical staff president, was appointed to the International Medical Panel of the Federation Internationale de Motcyclisme (FIM) at its Annual Congress on Nov. 24 in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain.

The FIM, founded in 1904, is based in Geneva, Switzerland and is the world governing body for motorcycle sport and represents the interests of motorcyclists from 107 national motorcycle federations, divided in six continental unions (Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia and Oceania). Dr. Brennan is one of four U.S. representatives to the organization and the sole U.S. physician on the medical panel.

The 57-year-old Rhode Island native is a lifelong and avid off-road motorcyclist and advocate for the sport. He is a member of the Rhode Island Trials Club, New England Trials Association and the American Motorcyclist Association. He holds an international medical license as a chief medical officer of the FIM.

“I am at once humbled and extremely honored to have been selected to the panel,” said Brennan. “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.”

Dr. Brennan is a partner in Brennan, Cronin and Peters Internal Medicine in East Greenwich, and serves on a number of boards and committees focusing on health care governance and transformation.