Bradley M. Leonard ’78

Brad died in a highway accident Feb. 1, 2025. Our hearts go out to Brad’s family, patients, and friends. He had lived in Dallas for more than 40 years, practicing medicine and raising his family there.

After graduating magna cum laude in biology, he completed his medical degree and residency at UT Southwestern. He took an additional fellowship at Harvard/Beth Israel, then returned to Dallas to practice cardiology. In 2012, he completed an MBA at SMU.

Brad wrote honestly at our 25th reunion of mid-career burnout and stepping away from his practice for a few years. When he returned to medicine, he came back fully and passionately renewed. Brad’s patients wrote of his care and attention, his singular combination of no-nonsense communication and deep compassion, and his willingness to spend the time necessary to take care of them as individuals, not just cases. He was voraciously curious about both medicine and people. Classmates and rugby teammates remember Brad as always all-in and usually up for an adventure.

Brad’s family described him as “uniquely hilarious”; it was a humor of connection and deep knowing.

Brad was unwaveringly devoted to his family: his siblings, his two children, and Martha — who remained his best friend even when their marriage ended.