W. Michael Brode, M.D.

W. Michael Brode, M.D., FACP, is a board-certified internist who cares for people living with Long COVID and leads a multidisciplinary team integrating clinical care, rehabilitation, patient education and embedded research. His work sits at the intersection of complex illness, clinical informatics and health-systems innovation.

Dr. Brode earned his medical degree from Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine and completed residency in internal medicine at the University of Washington, where he served as Chief Resident of Global Health at Naivasha County Referral Hospital in Kenya.

Dr. Brode’s research focuses on translating rapidly evolving evidence into practical tools for clinicians and patients. He is the principal investigator of an NIH-funded career development award building AI tools to deliver trustworthy, citation-grounded clinical guidance for Long COVID. His work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine and JAMA Open.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Brode founded an interprofessional therapeutics committee that synthesized rapidly evolving evidence into standardized treatment protocols and clinical decision support tools, which were subsequently adopted across a large national hospital network. He also works to design and evaluate community health worker interventions that connect hospitalized patients with social services and support transitions of care.