Matthew Bradley M.D., M.S.

Education

B.S., Pennsylvania State University
M.S., Temple University School of Medicine
M.D., Temple University School of Medicine

Biography

CAPT Bradley received his undergraduate degree from the Pennsylvania State University, and his Master’s in Physiology and Doctor of Medicine from the Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, graduating with Alpha Omega Alpha honors. He completed his General Surgery residency at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) in Bethesda, MD. Following residency, he was assigned as the Ship’s Surgeon on board the George HW Bush, CVN 77 during its maiden deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He completed Trauma and Surgical Critical Care fellowship training at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, MD. Upon completion of his fellowship, he was transferred to the Naval Medical Research Center in Silver Spring, MD serving as the Department Head for the Regenerative Medicine Department focusing on the systemic inflammatory response following traumatic injury. During this tour he was selected as Associate Program Director for the Walter Reed general surgery residency, and completed a deployment as Chief of Trauma at the NATO Role III Multinational Medical Unit in Kandahar, Afghanistan and multiple missions aboard USNS Comfort. Dr. Bradley served as the Program Director of the general surgery residency at WRNMMC for four years and he holds the academic rank of Professor in the Department of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University (USU). He is currently the Norman M. Rich Professor and Chair of Surgery at USU/WRNMMC.

CAPT Bradley is dual board-certified in general surgery and surgical critical care. His research interests include surgical education, quality improvement, post-injury systemic inflammatory response, and predictive modeling in critical care. He is the Principal or Associate Investigator on several grants with multimillion-dollar annual budgets, and published over 110 peer-reviewed manuscripts, invited articles, and book chapters. He is a reviewer for several prominent journals and sits on the editorial board for the Journal of Surgical Research and Current Trauma Reports. Nationally, CAPT Bradley is the military Executive Director for the Military Health Systems Strategic Partnership American College of Surgeons and is the Navy State Chair for the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. He is the former Research Committee Chair of the American College of Surgeons’ Excelsior Surgical Society. He is enrolled in the USU Master of Education in Health Professions Education program. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the Association for Program Directors in Surgery, the American Association for Surgery in Trauma, the Eastern Association for the Surgery in Trauma, the Southeastern Surgical Congress, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the Association for Academic Surgery. In addition, he is an instructor for Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS), Fundamentals of Critical Care Support (FCCS), Advanced Trauma Operative Management (ATOM), and Advanced Surgical Skills for Exposure in Trauma (ASSET) and ASSET+ courses. CAPT Bradley received the Vice Admiral James A. Zimble Award for supporting Graduate Medical Education, the WRNMMC Master Clinician Award, the Norman M. Rich Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Eisenhower Teaching Award (three times), and the National Capital Consortium Graduate Medical Education Mentor Award. His personal military awards include the Meritorious Service Medal, Navy Commendation Medal (three awards), Joint Service Achievement Medal (two awards), Navy Achievement Medal, and the NATO Meritorious Service Medal, and is a qualified Surface Warfare Medical Department Officer.

Representative Bibliography

Matthew J. Bradley, MD; Audrey Shi, BA; Vivek Khatri, PhD; Seth A. Schobel, PhD; Elizabeth C. Silvius, MS; Allan D. Kirk, MD, PhD; Timothy G. Buchman, PhD, MD; John S. Oh, MD; Eric A. Elster, MD. Prediction of Venous Thromboembolism Using Clinical and Serum Biomarker Data from Trauma Patients. BMJ Mil Health. 2021; 167:402-407

Gunasingha RMKD, Grey SF, Munoz B, Schobel S, Lee J, Erwin C, Irons T, McMillan E, Unselt D, Elster E, and Bradley M. To Scan or Not to Scan: Development of a Clinical Decision Support Tool to Determine If Imaging Would Aid in the Diagnosis of Appendicitis. World Journal of Surgery. October 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-021-06246-6

Bozzay JD, Walker PF, Schechtman DW, Shaikh F, Stewart L, Carson ML, Tribble DR, Rodriguez CJ, Bradley MJ; Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program Trauma Infectious Disease Outcomes Study Group. Risk Factors for Abdominal Surgical Site Infection after Exploratory Laparotomy among Combat Casualties. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2021 Feb 16.

Bradley MJ, Franklin BR, Renninger CH, Bowyer MW, Andreatta PB. Upper extremity vascular exposures for trauma: Comparative performance outcomes for general surgeons and orthopaedic surgeons. Military Medicine. 2021

Walker PF, Bozzay JD, Schechtman DW, Shaikh F, Stewart L, Carson ML, Tribble DR, Rodriguez CJ, Bradley MJ. Anastomotic Outcomes in Military Exploratory Laparotomies in the Modern Combat Era. American Surgeon

Parker W, DesPain R, Delgado A, Rodriguez C, Elster E, Baird D, Bradley M. Pelvic Binder Utilization In Combat Casualties: Does It Matter? American Surgeon. 2020;86(7):873-877

Bradley, M., Dente, C., Khatri, V. et al. Advanced Modeling to Predict Pneumonia in Combat Trauma Patients. World J Surg (2019). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-019-05294-3

Matthew J. Bradley, M.D., Dean E. Baird, M.D., Paul G. Peterson, M.D., Michael D. Baird, B.S., Eric A. Elster M.D., Carlos J. Rodriguez D.O. Primary Pulmonary Thrombus in Combat Casualties, Is Treatment Necessary? Am Surg. 2018 Jun 1;84(6):909-915.

Strong A, Spreadborough P, Pagani C, Haskins R, Dey D, Grimm P, Kaneko K, Simone Marini S, Huber A, Hwang C, Kenneth Westover K, Mishina Y, Bradley MJ, Levi B, Davis T. Small molecule inhibition of non-canonical (TAK1-mediated) BMP signaling results in reduced chondrogenic ossification and heterotopic ossification in a rat model of blast-associated combat-related lower limb trauma. Bone. 2020 Oct;139:115517. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2020.115517

Nealeigh MD, Kucera WB, Artino AR, Bradley MJ, Meyer HS. The Isolated Surgeon: A scoping Review. J Surg Res. August 2021