For Immediate Release
Monday, August 24, 2015
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Former Senate President Don Gaetz Endorses
Neal Dunn for Florida Congressional District 2
Tallahassee, Fla. After making his way from Panama City to Tallahassee to announce his
Republican candidacy for Florida Congressional District 2, Panama City Surgeon and United
States Army Veteran Neal Dunn today announced that former Senate President Don Gaetz (RNiceville) has endorsed his candidacy.
Neal Dunn is one of us here in North Florida, said Senator Gaetz, who served as President of
the Senate from 2012 to 2014. In his own military career and the military service and sacrifices
of his family, he personifies the values and needs of our retired military and the communities that
host our bases and missions. In his distinguished career as a medical doctor caring for thousands
of North Florida families, he knows firsthand the health care issues that affect our communities.
In his successful business career, he faces the same struggles as the rest of us in meeting payroll,
growing jobs and working through the maze of government regulation.
Senator Gaetz continued, Neal's life perfectly qualifies him to speak for North Florida and to
fight for North Florida. He is a conservative with solutions that work. I am honored to support
him for Congress.
I thank Senator Don Gaetz for his support of my campaign, said Dr. Dunn. North Florida is
important to me this is where I have practiced as a surgeon for the last 25 years and where my
wife and I have raised our family. I am passionate about serving my home district and serving as
an unapologetic conservative with specific ideas addressing three very important issues to me
health care, the economy and national security. I look forward to discussing these important
issues on the campaign trail with my fellow neighbors.
Neal P. Dunn, MD, FACS has been a surgeon in Panama City for 25 years and in the U.S. Army
for more than 10 years before that. He was the founding president of the Advanced Urology
Institute, a 45-physician practice with more than 400 employees and offices throughout North
Florida. He also founded Panama City Urology Center & the Bay Regional Cancer Center and
has a subspecialty interest in advanced prostate cancer. He sits on the Governor's Prostate Cancer
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Advisory Council and also serves on the Florida Blue Physician Advisory Board. He received his
B.S. from Washington & Lee University and his M.D. from George Washington University. His
Urological Residency was at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
He has served on the Board of Governors of the Florida Medical Association for 18 years and
was the chairman of the Florida Medical Association's very successful Council on Legislation.
He has served as president of his County Medical Society, chief of staff of Gulf Coast Hospital
and director of the Bay Medical Center Sacred Heart Joint Venture. He is active in several
philanthropies, including serving as chairman of the Bay Cares program, a charity that provides
$30 million of free specialty care annually to the working poor (with an operational overhead of
less than 0.5 percent).
He is also the founding chairman of Summit Bank, a rapidly growing five-star bank
headquartered in Panama City with branches throughout Northwest Florida.
In 2014, Dr. Dunn was appointed to the Board of Space Florida which manages the state's
growing assets of space launch, manufacture and assembly facilities. Space Florida is now the
busiest space launch facility in the world. He is also on the board of directors of Enterprise
Florida, a public-private collaborative group that oversees some $100 million in economic
development grants and conduit financing annually.
Dr. Dunn has been married to his wife, Leah, for 30 years and has three sons and three
grandsons.
For more information on the Neal Dunn Campaign for Florida Congressional District 2, please
visit [Link].
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