{"id":1651,"date":"2024-02-06T17:50:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T17:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flourishresearch.com\/?post_type=team&#038;p=1651"},"modified":"2025-05-16T13:01:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T13:01:44","slug":"david-kirk","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/flourishresearch.com\/team\/david-kirk\/","title":{"rendered":"David Kirk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">David Kirk, DO has a Bachelor of Health Science degree from the University of South Florida and a medical degree from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Bradenton, FL. During his time at USF, Dr. Kirk gained valuable experience working as a clinical research coordinator on the USF HIV Research Unit. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:180}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">His interests in medical research, lifestyle, and obesity medicine, and MSK joint injections were further developed during his Family Medicine Residency at Bayfront Health. Today, Dr. Kirk is an investigator on more than 15 neurodegenerative clinical trials at Flourish Research \u2013 Merritt, formerly Merritt Island Medical Research.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:180}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Contact us about your next trial at <a href=\"mailto:bd@flourishresearch.com\"><span class=\"s1\">bd@flourishresearch.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1763,"parent":0,"menu_order":24,"template":"","city":[27],"class_list":["post-1651","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","department-investigators","city-merritt-island"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>David Kirk - Flourish Research<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/flourishresearch.com\/team\/david-kirk\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"David Kirk - Flourish Research\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"David Kirk, DO has a Bachelor of Health Science degree from the University of South Florida and a medical degree from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Bradenton, FL. 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