William J. Brady, MD

Professor of Emergency Medicine & Cardiovascular Medicine
Additional positions listed below.

P.O. Box 800699
Charlottesville, VA 22908-0699
Phone: (434) 924-8485
Fax: (434) 924-2877
E-mail: wb4z@uvahealth.org

Recipient of (UVA Awards & Honors):
2025 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentorship
2024 All-University Teaching Award
2021 Nomination to the Academy for Excellence in Education
2013 The David A. Harrison Distinguished Educator Award
2010 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
2007 Nomination to the Academy of Distinguished Educators
2004 & 2005 Leadership in Academic Medicine Program Participant

UVA Health & University of Virginia

Professor of Emergency Medicine & Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Departments of
Emergency Medicine and Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Professor of Nursing, University of Virginia School of Nursing
Medical Director, University of Virginia Department of Safety and Security
Chair, Resuscitation Committee, University of Virginia Medical Center
The David A. Harrison Distinguished Educator, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Founding Member, Academy for Excellence in Education, University of Virginia School of Medicine

Community

Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Emergency Medicine (Medicine in Motion News)
Operational Medical Director, Albemarle County Fire Rescue, Seminole Trail Fire Department, Earlysville Fire Department, & East Rivanna Fire Department
Professor of Emergency Medical Services, Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville,
VA
Recipient of the 2020 Thomas Jefferson EMS Regional Award, Physician with Outstanding Contribution to EMS, Thomas Jefferson EMS Council

William Brady, MD, FACEP, FAAEM is a practicing emergency physician at the University of Virginia (UVA); he is residency trained in both emergency medicine and internal medicine.  He is a Professor of Emergency Medicine, Medicine (Cardiovascular), and Nursing in addition to serving as Executive Vice Chair for the department and the David A. Harrison Distinguished Educator at the UVA Health System. He is a member of the Academy of Distinguished Educators at the UVA School of Medicine and is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including the UVA School of Medicine’s David A. Harrison Distinguished Educator Award, the All-University UVA Faculty Teaching Award, and the American College of Emergency Physicians National Faculty Teaching Award. 

At UVA, he serves as the chair of the UVA Health Medical Center’s Resuscitation Committee and Medical Advisor to UVA’s Department of Safety and Security; in the community, he functions as the operational medical director of Albemarle County Fire Rescue and Medical Advisor to the Charlottesville-Albemarle-UVA Emergency Communications Center.  He is the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Emergency Medicine and an examiner for the American Board of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Brady is actively involved in the instruction of healthcare providers on many topics, with a particular focus on the electrocardiogram and cardiac arrest with lectures given regionally, nationally, and internationally.  He has also published numerous scholarly works (original research, reviews, annotated bibliographies, invited editorials, guidelines, and textbook chapters), addressing the electrocardiogram, travel medicine, and mass gathering medicine; in addition, he has written and / or edited multiple textbooks focusing on these subjects.  He has contributed to clinical policy guidelines for both the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Heart Association involving acute coronary syndromes. 

Dr. Brady lives in Charlottesville, VA with his family; he is active in the community, working in volunteer capacities in public safety.