Jerry Bradley graduated with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of South Alabama and completed his medical degree at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. He then served in the US Navy as a general medical officer, where he completed training as a Lean Six Sigma black belt and then earned his master black belt certification from Villanova University. He received several awards for his clinical process improvement programs, which were consistently recognized as clinical best practices. He also received a Doctor of Education in Community Care and Counseling with a focus in Traumatology from Liberty University, with a dissertation on the impact of the SAFE Start program on improving mental health screening and prevention in outpatient military health clinics. He also earned a Master of Divinity degree from Regent University and a Master of Healthcare Systems Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. He completed his Family Medicine residency at the University of Louisville–Owensboro and is currently a fellow in the combined Geriatric, Palliative, and Hospice Medicine program at the Jackson Health System / University of Miami.