Bradford Walters

Dr. Walters is currently working as the Senior Director, Clinical Research, at RTI Health Solutions. Previously, served as a Partner with Academy Funds after teaching and practicing neurosurgery for 14 years.  As a tenured professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Dr. Walters served on the UNC Clinic Directors Committee and the UNC Physicians & Associates Information Systems Advisory Board, and he has continued his membership on the UNC Committee on the Protection of the Rights of Human Subjects.  At UNC Dr. Walters established and developed the Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Epilepsy Surgery Programs with colleagues from radiation oncology and neurology, respectively.  He has a long-standing interest in the applications of technology to healthcare (both information technology and medical devices).   Dr. Walters also held a clinical appointment in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

Throughout his career, Dr. Walters has been active in the medical community in the state of North Carolina, serving as an elected member of the North Carolina Medical Society (NCMS) leadership from 1992 through 2000.  Dr. Walters has an NCMS appointment to the North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communication Alliance (NCHICA).  On the national level, Dr. Walters served on the Editorial Board of Neurosurgery: // OnCall (http://www.neurosurgery.org) for its first five years.   Dr. Walters is a member of the Boards of Directors of NCHICA, Kucera Pharmaceutical Company, Curry Pharmaceuticals, and the Piedmont Triad Entrepreneurial Network, and also the Science Advisory Board of UNC-Greensboro.

Dr. Walters received his MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina in 2001.  He earned a BA summa cum laude in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard College at age 20, a PhD in Anatomy and Embryology from University College London (on a Marshall Scholarship) at 24, and an MD cum laude from Harvard Medical School at 26 through the joint Harvard - MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology.  Dr. Walters completed his surgery internship at Johns Hopkins and his neurosurgical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital.