Representative  Paige Kreegel

District 72
Republican

• View Original From the left, Minority Leader pro tempore Joseph A. "Joe" Gibbons, D-Hallandale Beach, listens as Rep. Paige Kreegel, R-Punta Gorda, offers debate during the consideration of CS/HB 1021 relating to Labor and Employment during an Appropriations Committee meeting, March 21, 2011.
• View Original Health & Human Services Committee member Rep. Paige Kreegel, R-Punta Gorda, questions a presenter testifying before the committee on March 10, 2011, in Tallahassee, Florida. The panel later approved two measures, one that would restrict doctors from directly dispensing controlled substances to patients and another that would repeal the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program.
• View Original Rep. Paige Kreegel, R-Punta Gorda, offers support as the House brought it's version of the state budget to the floor Friday, April 30, 2010.
• View Original Rep. Paige Kreegel, R-Punta Gorda, makes a point of information on the House floor as the House brought it's version of the state budget to the floor Friday, April 30, 2010.
• View Original Rep. Paige Kreegel, R-Punta Gorda, gestures as he makes a point in debate on the House floor April 17, 2009, in Tallahassee, Florida.
• View Original Members huddle around Paige Kreegel, center below, on the House floor during a short break in busy bill action May 1, 2009. From the left are Representatives: Kevin Ambler, Michael Scionti, Richard Glorioso, and Trudi Williams.

Member Information

Biographical Information

City of Residence:  Punta Gorda

Occupation:  Medical Doctor

Spouse:  Erika Kim McCarthy of New Jersey

Child(ren):  Olivia, Savannah, Christian

Education:  New York Medical College, M.D., 1982; IMPAC University, M.B.A.; Interned at the University of Tennessee Baptist Memorial in Memphis; Emergency Department physician at St. Joseph's Hospital in Port Charlotte

Born:  August 20, 1958, Miami, FL

Religious Affiliation:  Catholic

Committee Membership

Appropriations Committee

Select Committee on Water Policy

Legislative Service

Elected to the House in 2004, reelected subsequently

Other Public Service

Physician for Charlotte County Sheriff's Office SWAT Team

Affiliations

American Medical Association

Charlotte County Cattlemen's Association

Florida Medical Association

Gulf Coast Citrus Growers Association

Peace River Valley Citrus Growers Association

Highlights

Associate Professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa 1990

Founded American-Medic, a multi-functional clinic involving as many as 14 medical specialists along with the diagnostic equipment

Has made several medical mission trips to Ecuador, Peru, and Nicaragua

Offered medical assistance to migrant workers in Charlotte and DeSoto counties through the Care-a-Van program