2021 Outstanding Alumnus Award Winner
Michael S. Bronze, MD, is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Royal College of Physicians (London), as well as a Master of the American College of Physicians. He is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases and was honored with the prestigious University of Oklahoma titles of professor and chairman of the OU Health Sciences Center in 2000, Stewart G. Wolf Professor in Internal Medicine in 2004, and David Ross Boyd Professor in 2011.
He now works for OU Health, a joint endeavor of the OU Health Sciences Center and OU Medicine, Inc. He holds numerous awards, including several for teaching, and is active on the National Board of Medical Examiners.
Dr. Bronze received his medical degree in 1982 from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, where he completed an internship, residency, and fellowship in infectious diseases. As a University of Tennessee Health Science Center faculty member in the College of Medicine until 2000, he was the director of the Internal Medicine program, vice chair for Education, and vice chair for Operations. He has served as a chair or officer in various local, national, and regional committees and professional societies, including as president of the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (2004–2005), president of the Association of Professors of Medicine (2012–2013), and chair of the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (2013–2015).
Dr. Bronze’s research work focuses on bioterrorism, the role of inflammatory cytokines in bacterial growth, and the pathogenesis of both nonsuppurative complications of group A streptococcal infections and hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with hepatitis C and other cancers. He is a reviewer and editorial board member for multiple academic journals, and frequently writes abstracts, book chapters, and manuscripts related to these research interests.
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