(From left) Bill Brady, MD, and Moira Smith, MD, MPH
Two faculty members from the Department of Emergency Medicine were recently honored with awards by Virginia’s chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians (VACEP).
Moira Smith, MD, MPH, received the Rising Star Award. A graduate of UVA (BA, 2010), the UVA School of Medicine (MD, 2019) and the UVA Emergency Medicine Residency Program (2022), Dr. Smith joined the faculty in 2024 after completing her Clinical Informatics Fellowship at UVA as well. She has held leadership roles on the ACEP Scientific Assembly Planning Committee and Research Committee and has also been active at the state level. Dr. Smith has been a core member of the informatics team both for the Department of Emergency Medicine and for the health system as a whole.
Bill Brady, MD, received the Educator of the Year Award. Also a graduate of UVA (BA, 1984), Dr. Brady joined the faculty in 1994 after completing residencies in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Medical College of Virginia and Medical College of Wisconsin respectively. Over his career, Dr. Brady has established a state, national, and international reputation as a premier educator and scholar in the field of emergency medicine. His elective course, “The ECG in Clinical Medicine,” has been a popular one among UVA medical students for well over a decade.
The awards were presented February 21 at the VACEP annual meeting in Hot Springs, Virginia.
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