CynthiaJBrownMD, MSPH, FACP

Summary

• Dr. Cynthia J. Brown completed an undergraduate degree in physical therapy from East Carolina University and a MD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At Yale University, Dr. Brown completed residency training in internal medicine, which included a Chief Resident year, and a three-year Geriatric Medicine fellowship. She has been on faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham since 2003 and received a Master of Science in Public Health in Health Behaviors from UAB in 2006. Dr. Brown was named the Director of the Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care, and the Comprehensive Center for Healthy Aging in 2014 and holds the rank of Professor. In 2018, she was named Department of Medicine Vice-Chair for Faculty and Staff Development. In 2021, Dr. Brown was named Chair for the Department of Medicine at LSU-New Orleans. Dr. Brown’s research interests combine the issues of low mobility and falls in the older adult. Her mobility work has been presented at national meetings and she has won numerous awards including the 2013 AGS Outstanding Scientific Achievement for Clinical Investigation Award for this research.