W. Michael Brode, M.D.

W. Michael Brode, M.D., is a board-certified internal medicine specialist and assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Dell Medical School. He is the medical director of UT Health Austin’s Post-COVID-19 Program and a practicing hospitalist at Dell Seton Medical Center. Brode is a clinician-educator who emphasizes knowing the patient as a person first, evidence-based diagnosis and comprehensive care for the patients who are most vulnerable.

Brode graduated from Loyola University of Chicago with honors in global health. He completed residency training at the University of Washington in Seattle, then served as the chief resident of global health through the University of Washington in partnership with the University of Nairobi in Naivasha, Kenya.

Within the Post-COVID-19 Program at UT Health Austin, Brode specializes in the research and clinical care of long COVID-19 for patients who are still experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 months after initial infection. At Dell Med, Brode leads the Therapeutics and Informatics Committee to develop treatment guidelines and operational processes for COVID-19 care, focused on interprofessional care and using technologies to improve health care delivery.

In his courtesy appointment within in the Department of Population Health, he works to develop community health worker programs to improve how the medical system identifies patients’ health-related social needs and connects them to resources. Brode works with medical students and residents to deliver compassionate, person-centered care for all patients.