Ep 016 - Family Medicine with Dr. Steve Brown

Show notes page for Dr. Steve Brown.


Dr. Brown is Program Director and Professor at the University of
Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix Family Medicine Residency
in Phoenix, Arizona.


Dr. Brown completed his undergraduate degree at Stanford
University in 1994; completed his medical degree at Albany
Medical College in 1998; then completed a family medicine
residency at the University of California, San Francisco at San
Francisco General Hospital in 2001. Following the completion of
his residency Dr. Brown worked for four years with the Indian
Health Service with the rural White Mountain Apache Tribe in
Northern Arizona. In this role as a Commissioned Officer with the
Public Health Service, Dr. Brown was a full-spectrum family
physician delivering babies, providing emergency care, and
inpatient and outpatient care of adults and children. Dr. Brown
joined the family medicine teaching faculty at Banner University
Medical Center-Phoenix, in 2005, where he continues to practice
and teach full-spectrum family medicine. He also works closely
with medical students at the University of Arizona College of
Medicine-Phoenix, where he was recognized as Clinical Sciences
Educator of the Year in 2010. He then become residency program
director in 2011.


Dr. Brown’s scholarly interests include care of the rural and
urban underserved, high value care, pharma influence, and
physician well-being. He has served as chair of the American
Academy of Family Physicians Commission of the Health of the
Public and Science and on subcommittees for Clinical Preventive
Services and Clinical Practice Guidelines. He is an Associate
Editor for Essential Evidence and a board member of the
Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors.


Finally, Dr. Brown is editor and co-founder of the American
Family Physician Podcast (on iTunes and at aafp.org/afppodcast)
which he co-hosts with third years residents in his program. The
podcast, which summarizes clinical topics and practice-changing
evidence, is regularly a Top 10 medical podcast on iTunes with
over 25,000 downloads per month.


Please enjoy with Dr. Steve Brown!