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Public Biography
Dr. Brown is an Associate Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UC San Francisco, an AMIA Board Director and was a Vice Chair for the AMIA 2022 conference, and is a John A. Watson Faculty Scholar. He is the Founding Director of CODE Lab, Director of DEI for the Bakar Computational Health Science Institute, Co-Director of the T32 DaTABASE for Health Disparities Research Fellowship, Associate Director at the Research Coordinating Center to Reduce Disparities in Multiple Chronic Diseases (RCC RD-MCD), and Implementation Science Lead for the Center for Digital Health Innovation. His research involves Big Data, mHealth, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Standards [FHIR, OMOP, UMLS, etc.] as applied to clinical and behavioral health disparities research, with underserved communities. Using community-based participatory research he works to reduce chronic illness (HIV, diabetes, opioids) and health disparities among vulnerable populations (i.e., African-Americans, Latinos, youth, and LGBT). He also teaches and mentors graduate students.

Affiliations

DEI Education, Governance, and Policy Subcommittee

Member

DEI Education, Governance, and Policy Subcommittee builds DEI practices into AMIA’s internal structures and policies; support DEI member education activities; and external partner benchmarking.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Steering Committee

Board Liaison

The DEI Steering Committee guides and executes AMIA’s strategic goals and objectives related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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