Dr. Jennifer Bracey

Dr. Jennifer Bracey is an established and well-liked clinician-educator. While she has expertise in both teaching and front-line healthcare work, a large part of her motivation resides in behind-the-scenes efforts to establish a better, more fair system of care for all people.Her postsecondary education started in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from the College of Charleston. She was subsequently admitted to the Medical University of South Carolina, where she was inducted into the renowned Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor organization and received her Doctor of Medicine degree in 2006.Dr. Jennifer Bracey enrolled in the J. Willis Hurst Internal Medicine Residency Program at Emory University School of Medicine in 2006. Because of its relationship with Grady Memorial Hospital, this Emory University program was Bracey's first pick. Grady is one of the nation's major safety-net hospitals, known for delivering a much higher quality of treatment to individuals who would otherwise be unable to access it, such as low-income, uninsured, and otherwise disadvantaged populations in the greater Atlanta metro region. Grady was, in fact, the first hospital within 100 miles of the city to be certified as a Level 1 trauma center. Dr. Bracey picked Emory University as her residency match to emphasize delivering treatment and developing improved policy to aid the many Georgians in need of superior medical care who would not otherwise be able to pay or access it.Following her residency, she relocated to Baltimore in 2009 in order to achieve a personal/work balance. Dr. Jennifer Bracey got a distinguished full-time post as an Instructor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine while there. After three years at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Bracey sought for and was approved for a teaching post at Emory University School of Medicine, where she felt most alive.As an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, Dr. Jennifer Bracey started what would be five of the most fulfilling years of her healthcare career in 2012. She worked as an attending physician at Grady's International Clinic throughout her tenure here, where she polished her talents in international health care. Dr. Jennifer Bracey finds herself traveling the globe while working at Emory University. She took students to Haiti as part of Project Medishare for three years. Project Medishare is a non-profit organization in Haiti that works in the island country's most rural and isolated locations, delivering essential healthcare services to some of the world's poorest people. Dr. Bracey then spent another two years. She aided residents and patients at the Black Lion Hospital in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia's capital city.Dr. Jennifer Bracey's experience at Emory University School of Medicine was very fulfilling, but her personal life beckoned her back to Charleston in the summer of 2017, where she took a job as Assistant Professor of Medicine at Medical University South Carolina. Bracey was a "Master Clinical Skills Teacher" at MUSC, where she taught physical examination to second-year medical students and guided them through differential diagnosis and clinical reasoning tasks. She also taught the Fundamentals of Patient Care course to first-year medical students. Bracey received the coveted Michael C. Assey Attending of the Year award at MUSC, as well as the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine award from the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Bracey is happy for the time she was able to spend with MUSC students and residents, which was gratefully reflected in her learners' highest assessments.Dr. Jennifer Bracey has always prioritized caring for family and friends. Dr. Bracey traveled to Baltimore with her then-boyfriend for his oncology fellowship at Johns Hopkins University after finishing her residency at Emory University in Atlanta. Following that, she picked Atlanta as her next important job after graduation because of the coworkers and friends she admired during her residency.Dr. Bracey's five years in Atlanta gave her considerable accomplishment and significant professional happiness, but she answered the phone when relatives phoned. When Dr. Bracey's parents' health began to worsen in 2017, she relocated to Charleston to assist and support her parents. She stays in the neighborhood to care for her parents and pursue her professional career.