Christopher L. Bray,
MD, PhD
Internal medicine physician · physician–educator · founder of the DocBray Foundation
A board-certified internist and former internal medicine residency program director, Dr. Bray has spent nearly two decades training physicians — and now mentors freely, with a focus on international medical graduates.
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Two decades at the elbow of physicians-in-training.
Dr. Bray has practiced internal medicine since 2007, combining a busy clinical practice with a long commitment to medical education. For most of his career he has taught at the bedside, in clinic, and in the classroom.
In 2015 he was recruited as associate program director to help build a new internal medicine residency — from concept to ACGME accreditation. He became program director in 2017 and led the program through 2024, growing it from a fifteen-resident startup into a fully accredited program of sixty, training more than 160 physicians across seven graduating classes with continuous accreditation and zero citations.
His path to medicine ran through the laboratory. At Florida State University he completed four undergraduate degrees in four years — biochemistry, biology, mathematics, and computer science — finishing first in his class, with honors theses in machine learning and in protein crystallography. He went on to earn both his MD and a PhD in molecular genetics and microbiology at the University of Florida, where his doctoral work in the laboratory of Dr. Edward Scott examined how stem cells repair ischemic tissue. He was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and is board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and in both integrative and holistic medicine.
The DocBray Foundation grew out of that work — a way to keep the door open for the students and residents who need a mentor, especially international graduates finding their way into American medicine, offered freely and wherever they trained.
Medicine learned in small groups, in clinic, with respect.
Dr. Bray teaches the way he was taught best: in warm outpatient settings, in groups of three to six, where a learner can think out loud and be corrected kindly. He expects his residents to present themselves professionally — and he holds himself to the same standard.
The work is hands-on. Alongside reasoning at the board, he teaches the procedures of a complete internist — point-of-care ultrasound, biopsies and injections, paracentesis and lumbar puncture, and simulated code scenarios — so that graduates leave ready for practice, not just for the boards.
Credentials & training.
For the recordEducation
- MD, Internal Medicine — University of Florida College of Medicine
- PhD, Molecular Genetics & Microbiology — stem-cell repair of ischemic tissue — University of Florida
- BS — Biochemistry · Biology · Mathematics · Computer Science — Florida State University (four degrees in four years)
Certification
- ABIM — Internal Medicine
- ABOIM — Integrative Medicine
- ABIHM — Holistic Medicine
- CPE · FACP
- Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society
Procedures taught
- Point-of-care ultrasound
- Skin biopsies — punch & shave
- Joint & trigger-point injections
- Cryotherapy · suturing · I&D
- Paracentesis · lumbar puncture
- SimMan code scenarios
Practice
- Licensed in 7 states — FL, GA, TX, AZ, NC, TN, NH
- Based in Gainesville, Florida
- Languages: English, Romanian
The Foundation is volunteer work. In his professional life, Dr. Bray is also the founder of Archangel Michael Health, a direct primary care practice blending internal and integrative medicine, and Bray Health, a company building software for residency operations and medical education.