MICHAEL P. BRADLEY, MD, MBA, MS

Dr. Bradley focuses his practice on sports medicine, orthopedic trauma, and knee/shoulder/hip replacements. He is board-certified and holds an advanced Certificate of Added Qualification in Sports Medicine. He serves as President/CEO of Ortho Rhode Island as well as Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at South County Hospital, and holds several local and national orthopedic leadership positions. As a URI official athletic department physician, he cares for URI athletes, where coincidentally his father coached soccer for nearly 20 years. He enjoys sharing knowledge through teaching nationally at several courses and conferences, as well as by working as a consultant for several industry leaders in medical education and product development including Arthrex, DJO Global, and Corin.

His patient care philosophy is to be a good listener and offer options, collaborating with patients on their treatment rather than pushing in any one direction. He chose orthopedic surgery as his specialty because he enjoys solving patient problems and helping them get back to whatever they consider to be normal activities.

Dr. Bradley found his passion for medicine and orthopedics while at Dartmouth College where he played collegiate soccer before he went on to play professional soccer in Seattle. After medical school, he spent four years on active duty in the U.S. Navy as the Head of Orthopedics in Newport, RI, where he was also Head Team Physician for the Naval Academy Prep School and Team Physician for the United States Coast Guard Academy. In 2009, he was deployed to Afghanistan and spent eight months caring for wounded warriors and Afghan civilians. He returned home to Rhode Island and joined South County Orthopedics in 2010.

When he’s not helping patients, he loves spending time with his wife and four children. His older sons and younger daughters all participate in activities and sports at all levels and he continues to stay active in sports, occasionally on the soccer field, either playing or coaching. But, more often than not, he is cycling or paddle boarding with his wife.

Education

  • Undergraduate – Dartmouth College
  • Medical – Brown University, Biomaterials/Biomechanics
  • Orthopedic Residency – Brown University
  • Fellowship – Brown University, Sports Medicine/Orthopedic Trauma
  • MBA – UMASS, 2015

 

Awards & Honors

  • Academic All‐American in soccer

 

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No Pain Act and Iovera

The United States government has passed the No Pain Act which takes affect in January 2025. They are focused on interventions and non-opioid medications to reduce pain for all  patients. The bipartisan and bicameral NOPAIN Act was designed to increase patient and provider access to non-opioid pain management options by removing the barriers associated with reimbursement for the Medicare population.

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October 20, 2022 / Interesting / Dr. Michael Bradley

A Winning Team Throughout Life

Whether consciously or unconsciously, I think many of the lessons I gained on a sports field have carried over to today. That sports field could represent any sort of inclusion group and certainly has very little to do with athletics. I think in all...

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January 15, 2020 / Healthcare Interesting / Dr. Michael Bradley

Thinking Like a Patient… Some Goals for Customer Service in 2020 and Beyond in Healthcare

Much attention nowadays in all aspects of business, from retail to consulting, focuses on the customer. In healthcare, we historically have been truly behind the times in thinking from the customer or patient side of things. Even the structure where there is a waiting room and appointments scheduled that usually do not run on time, seems archaic. It may be time to think like a patient.

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