Carol L. Brown is the Nicholls-Biondi Chair for Health Equity at

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and a professor at

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. She is a

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known for her work on

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cancers.

Education and career

Brown's father was a surgeon who had a practice in Los Angeles, and this piqued her interest in medicine. Brown's undergraduate degree is from

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. She earned her M.D. from

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in 1986 and was elected to

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, a medical honor society. She did her residency at the

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. In 1990 she started her fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering and then became faculty in 1994. In 2005, she became the director of the group improving diversity in clinical care, research, and education. She is also a professor at Weill Cornell Medical College. In February 2021, she was the named the Nicholls-Biondi Chair for Health Equity. Brown was the 2018 president of the

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, making her the first black president of the organization. Brown is known for her work addressing disparities in cancer care in medically under-served groups. She participated in a 2016 round table discussing the Cancer Moonshot with Vice President Joe

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. Brown joined the board for the Biden Cancer Initiative in 2017 and led the panel at the 2018 Biden Cancer Initiative Inaugural Summit. She has made multiple presentations on TV and in the print media, for example advocating for regular screening for cancer.

Selected publications

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Awards and honors

In 1984, Brown became the first recipient of the Malcolm X Memorial Scholarship from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 2017, Brown gave the

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's Jane Cooke Wright Memorial Lectureship. Brown was named a notable black executive by

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(2021) and has been noted as a top doctor in multiple publications presented by Castle Connolly Medical.

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