Medicine
Emergency physician training at the University of Chicago, with a focus on addiction medicine, social emergency medicine, and care in acute and safety-net settings.
Bradley Heinz, MD, MHS
Emergency physician,
researcher & technologist.
Public health & policy
Research, advocacy, and implementation work centered on access, health equity, substance use care, and the structural conditions that shape health.
Technology
A software engineering and product background applied to clinical workflows, data, and practical systems that help care teams serve patients better.
Selected work
Questions I’m working on now
01
Clinical systems
Making evidence easier to use at the bedside
Redesigning emergency department pathways and resident education for buprenorphine induction, precipitated withdrawal, and lower-barrier treatment after overdose.
02
Research
Improving continuity in addiction care
Studying treatment retention, telehealth-enabled low-threshold care, and the real-world factors that shape outcomes after an emergency visit.
03
Prior implementation work
Turning technology into care infrastructure
Built and deployed patient messaging, analytics, and operational tools alongside addiction medicine teams in safety-net care settings.
About
A nontraditional path to medicine
I came to medicine through anthropology, global health, consulting, and software—fields that taught me to look beyond a single encounter and ask how the larger system could work better.
I’m currently an emergency medicine resident at the University of Chicago, caring for patients on Chicago’s South Side. My work is especially focused on addiction medicine, implementation, and the social and structural forces that shape health.
Before medicine, I built technology for healthcare teams, worked in strategy and social impact, and conducted Fulbright research in Jordan. I’m a first-generation college graduate and an alumnus of Stanford and the UC Berkeley–UCSF Joint Medical Program.
Beyond the work
A delighted uncle of seven, traveler to 60+ countries, backpacker, lake swimmer, skier, reader, and certified yoga instructor.