Gustavo Ferrer MD

Gustavo Ferrer, MD FCCP, is an experienced pulmonologist trained both in Cuba and the US, founder of the Cleveland Clinic Florida Cough Center and president of Intensive Care Experts based in Weston, Fla. An authority on respiratory ailments with more than 20 years experience. His new book, Cough Cures: The Best Natural Remedies and Over-the-Counter Drugs for Acute and Chronic Cough (Moxie Life Press, April 2016) challenges our Western mindset that over medicates. Dr. Ferrer offers a blend of Western and natural remedies to effectively address both acute and chronic respiratory issues. While living in Cuba, Dr. Ferrer learned effective, natural medical treatments from his grandmother, who relied on herbs to cure patients in her role as the village healer. While attending medical school in his home country for internal and pulmonary medicine in the early 1990s, he discovered professors were also secretly turning to their herbalist grandmothers when they became ill. In 1999, while working with the native peoples of Venezuela’s Orinoco River region, he was hired by the United Nations University to serve as the Director of Respiratory Research. He emigrated to the United States the following year, where he completed his residency at Texas Tech University and received a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care at George Washington University. He joined the Cleveland Clinic Florida and led efforts to open centers of excellence for lung fibrosis and chronic cough. Dr. Ferrer was appointed to the national steering committee for the COPD Alliance in 2011 and was invited to the White House to help shape end-of-life policies and practices in the Affordable Care Act. He left the Cleveland Clinic in 2013 to establish Intensive Care Experts, a practice dedicated to bringing high-quality medical advancements to acute care hospitals, long-term care hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and home-care patients. He continues to be actively involved in medical research and publishing. As a doctor who uses herbal and homeopathic medicines in his own home and recommends them to his patients, Dr. Ferrer set out to bridge the gap between patients seeking more natural remedies and physicians who prescribe pharmaceuticals. In Cough Cures, he combines the holistic medicine traditions from his Cuban heritage with his extensive medical training in the U.S. to provide a simple and clear guide for treating coughs and colds naturally, without automatically turning to antibiotics or other prescription drugs. Dr. Ferrer also includes simple tips for confidently navigating the drug shelves at the pharmacy and avoiding dangerous combinations of medications. Dr. Ferrer has been a featured medical expert in print outlets like USA Today and The Miami Herald, and on NBC News, CNN en Españo and Radio Caracol Miami. He has also appeared in many Latin American national newspapers in countries such as El Salvador and Honduras and was named as one of the “Best Doctors in the U.S.” by U.S. News & World Report. Visit www.gustavoferrermd.com for more information.