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  • Brandon P. Brown, MD, MA, FAAP

Brandon P. Brown, MD, MA, FAAP

Affiliate Faculty, Indiana University Center for Bioethics
Vice-Chair for Professional Development and Wellness and Associate Professor, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Indiana University School of Medicine
Associate Professor, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Indiana University School of Medicine

Brandon Brown, MD, MA, FAAP

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Bio:

Dr. Brown is an Affiliate Faculty member of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics. He is also Vice-Chair for Professional Development and Wellness and Associate Professor of Radiology for Indiana University School of Medicine, as well as Director of Fetal and Perinatal Imaging at Riley Hospital for Children.

Dr. Brown received his bachelor’s in political philosophy from the University of Dallas. He subsequently received his master’s in bioethics and his MD from Indiana University in a combined graduate program. Dr. Brown completed his residency in diagnostic radiology at Indiana University, and a fellowship in pediatric radiology at Riley Hospital in Indianapolis, IN.

Dr. Brown conducts research on professionalism and ethical education in medicine and other various topics in perinatal ethics. His research goal is to strengthen interdisciplinary discussion and ethical awareness among fetal and neonatal healthcare professionals. Additionally, Dr. Brown devotes much time to clinical fetal imaging research and has established a fetal MRI program and diagnostic center at Riley Hospital, with ties to various other medical subspecialties.

Teaching:

Selected Courses:

IU School of Liberal Arts: MHHS M301 – Perspectives on Health, Disease, and Healing

IU School of Liberal Arts: MHHS M501 – Exploring the Human Condition

IU School of Liberal Arts: MHHS M492 – Topics in Medial Humanities (Food and Medicine)

IU School of Liberal Arts: PHIL P393 – Biomedical Ethics

Research:

Selected Publications:

  • McLuckey MN, Brown BP. Fetal MRI: Point-1.5-T MRI Is an Important Tool of the Fetal Imager. Am J Roentgenol. 2023.
  • Wise RL, Brown BP, Haas DM, Sparks C, Sadhasivam S, Zhao Y, Radhakrishnan R. Placental Volume in Pregnant Women with Opioid Use: Prenatal MRI Assessment. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2023. 
  • Brown BP. Why Wellness Fails. Journal of the American College of Radiology, 2021.
Additional Publications: PubMed

Funding:

Selected Grants:

Effects of Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy on Long-Term Maternal and Child Outcomes (Co-I)

$459,088 from NIH R01 07/2018 – 06/2023

Description: To investigate the neurological and placental effects of opioid use during pregnancy and the perinatal neurological changes with neonatal abstinence syndrome. We propose a multi-faceted and interdisciplinary approach, combining prenatal and postnatal in vivo MR imaging, genetic biomarkers, and neonatal outcomes.

Multi-format Curriculum for Professionalism Education (PI)

$100,000 from American Roentgen Ray Society Leonard Berlin Award 07/2018 – 06/2021

Description: To research, design, and implement an innovative comprehensive curriculum in medical professionalism for trainees, with dissemination nationally after a pilot implementation at our local institution.

Service:

Selected Activities:

  • Chair, Teacher and Learner Advocacy, Indiana University School of Medicine, 2017 – present

  • Director, Physician Vitality and Values, Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, 2020 – present

  • Chair of Professionalism, Radiologic Society of North America, 2018 – present

  • Vice-Chair for Fetal Imaging Research, Society for Pediatric Radiology, 2017 – present

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