Biographical Information
Dr. Crister Brady joined the Family Medicine Department as an Assistant Professor in September 2025. In his role as the Regional Director of the Rural Primary Care Fellowship Program through the UNC School of Medicine, he supports early-career rural primary care providers through mentorship and educational programming.
Dr. Brady completed his medical school at UC Davis in the Community Health Scholars Track as a Rural PRIME student and his Master’s in Public Health at UC Berkeley focused on health collaborations and shared leadership with communities experiencing homelessness based on relationships built through ethnographic life history interviews. His residency training at UCSF was formative in building experience in organizing and learning from community advisory councils. After residency training, Dr. Brady worked in a rural community health center with Piedmont Health Services for four years, providing full-spectrum care and teaching resident physicians in UNC Family Medicine’s Rural Track program.
Dr. Brady’s research interests center around exploring models of practice in community engagement in medical training at all stages and addressing health disparities through community empowerment and expertise.
He enjoys spending time with his family and being outdoors in nature.
Areas of Interest
Dr. Brady enjoys partnering with people and their families across all ages and backgrounds to build collaborative care plans. His special areas of interest include comprehensive outpatient medicine, teaching and mentorship, rural health, and action-focused research on models of community engagement in health care.
