About the Physician
Medicine built on time, evidence, and attention
Dr. Brandon Nader, DO founded Nader Medical on a conviction: the most valuable thing a physician can offer isn't a prescription, it's sustained, careful attention to one person's health over time.
Dr. Brandon Nader, DO
Founder & Medical Director · Dual Board-Certified: Family Medicine & Interventional Pain Medicine
Why this practice exists
I trained as an osteopathic physician, which means I was taught from the first day of medical school to see the body as one interconnected system: structure, metabolism, hormones, sleep, and stress influencing each other constantly. That lens never left me.
My residency in family medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School put me on the front lines of primary care: clinic, urgent care, and hospital medicine. My fellowship in interventional spine and pain medicine then showed me the other end of the pipeline: patients arriving with complex, chronic conditions that had been building quietly for decades. Again and again, I found myself treating the downstream consequences of problems that were measurable, and often preventable, twenty years earlier.
That experience changed how I wanted to practice. Effective care starts with listening, accurate diagnosis, and a plan built for the individual in front of you, not a template. But the traditional system allots seven minutes for that conversation, and a lab panel designed to catch disease only after it arrives.
Nader Medical is the practice I built to work upstream. Hour-long visits. Comprehensive biomarker analysis: ApoB, fasting insulin, inflammatory markers, hormones, and body composition, interpreted against optimal ranges, not just "normal." Honest, evidence-based counsel about what medicine knows, what it suspects, and what it doesn't yet know. The medicine I would want for my own family.
Dr. Brandon Nader, DO
Credentials
Trained rigorously. Practicing personally.
Osteopathic Medical Education
Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO), Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine, training grounded in whole-person, systems-based care, where structure, function, and lifestyle are treated as one interconnected picture.
Family Medicine Residency
Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS), Norfolk, broad-spectrum training across primary care, urgent care, and hospital medicine, caring for patients at every age and stage of health.
Fellowship Training
Interventional Spine & Pain Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, advanced diagnostic and procedural training in complex, chronic conditions, from spinal disorders to neuropathic pain.
Board Certification & Beyond
Dual board-certified in Family Medicine and Interventional Pain Medicine, with additional training in opioid stewardship and medication safety, and active, ongoing engagement with the evidence in preventative and longevity medicine.
Full curriculum vitae, licensure details, and board certifications available on request.
The Approach
Three principles that govern every decision
Evidence over enthusiasm
If the data doesn't support a therapy, we say so, even when it would be easier to sell it. Especially then.
Prevention over prescription
The most powerful interventions in medicine are still sleep, training, nutrition, and early risk detection. Medication serves the plan; it isn't the plan.
Depth over volume
A deliberately limited patient panel. When your physician has time to think, you get better medicine. It's that simple.
Looking for a physician who has time to think about you?
Start with a complimentary discovery call. Bring your questions, unhurried conversation is the entire point.