Dr. Thaddeus J. Bell is a practicing Family Practice Physician in Charleston, South Carolina. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Medicine and the Founder of Closing the Gap in Health Care, Inc. (CGHC), a non-profit organization created to decrease health disparities by providing health education for African Americans and other under-served populations throughout the Carolinas.

The organization accomplishes this by providing health education programs that promote wellness and healthy lifestyles and hopes to increase the number of African-American health providers in the state of South Carolina.