Dr. Brown is the founding Director of the Dartmouth Center for Implementation Science, an NIGMS P20 Center of Excellence, established to develop an academic home at Dartmouth to accelerate implementation science trials and research. He recently founded the first master’s program in implementation science hosted by the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He received his MS in 2003 and PhD in 2006 from the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth. He is a tenured professor of Epidemiology with joint appointments in Biomedical Data Science, and Health Policy and Clinical Practice. He was a former NIH Study Section Chair of the Science for Implementation in Health and Healthcare (SIHH).
Dr. Brown has been PI on funded grants from NIGMS, NHBLI, NIAID, NIDDK, and AHRQ. In Dr. Brown’s Impact Lab, his team specializes in running national implementation hybrid I, II, and III cluster randomized trials including three trials that span 62 medical centers nationally using learning collaboratives and EHR-based clinical decision support tools. Dr. Brown also has expertise in predictive analytics using structured and unstructured EHR data for use in developing healthcare informatics predictive toolkits, clinical decision support, and clinical-facing informatics implementation.