Dr. David Brown is Chief of the Department of Emergency Medicine at MGH. Dr. Brown graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. He then completed his internship and residency at MGH. He is the MGH Trustees Endowed Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Brown is an active clinician-teacher-administrator. Dr. Brown has led new initiatives for the MGH ED, including multiple ED renovations and expansions, implementation of electronic patient tracking, electronic physician order entry and documentation, and the redesign of patient triage and screening.
Dr. Brown has published more than 200 peer reviewed manuscripts and is noted as the founding section editor of the monthly Case Presentation section of the Journal of Emergency Medicine, numerous textbook chapters, primarily on topics related to cardiovascular emergencies, his role as inaugural editor in chief of Scientific American: Emergency Medicine. He is also the author several textbooks, including "A Visual Guide to ECG Interpretation", which is in its second edition and has been translated into Mandarin.