Michael Brady

Michael Brady

Colleagues & Benefactors:

Douglas Diekema Andrew Freedman

Member of:

AAP Circumcision Task Force 2012

Associates with:

American Academy of Pediatrics

Dr. Michael Thomas Brady received his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Dr. Brady completed his post-graduate training in Pediatrics at the Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. His sub-specialty training in pediatric infectious diseases was performed at Baylor College of Medicine.

On completion of his training in 1983, Dr. Brady returned to Columbus as a faculty member at The Ohio State University College of Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics. He is currently a Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University.

He is the Physician-in-Chief of Nationwide Children's Hospital. He created the HIV Program at Nationwide Children's Hospital in 1985 and has been a Physician Director since that time.

He was the Chairman of the Infection Control Committee and Physician Director of the Department of Epidemiology until he became department chair in 2006. Dr. Brady was named to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee on Infectious Diseases (Red Book Committee) and serves as its Vice Chair and the AAP Committee on Pediatric AIDS. Member of the 2012 Task Force on Circumcision of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

“	There’s enough medical evidence to suggest we shouldn’t have been neutral before. Now, we’re clearly stating that third-party payers and Medicaid should cover circumcision so that parents aren’t having the decision made for them.

“	Even if we weren’t going to routinely recommend circumcision, we could tell parents the risks and benefits and be confident that we weren’t subjecting their child to a lifelong change he would be uncomfortable with.