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Alan Brown, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Clinical Epidemiology
Director, Unit in Birth Cohort Studies ,
New York State Psychiatric Institute
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Alan S. Brown, MD, MPH is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Clinical Epidemiology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute and the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Brown earned his undergraduate degree at Johns Hopkins University and received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College. He completed his residency training in psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in schizophrenia research at Columbia, and received his M.P.H. degree in epidemiology from Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health.
He is the recipient of several awards in clinical psychiatric research, including the A.E. Bennett Research Award. He has received numerous research grants as PI from the NIMH, NARSAD, and other agencies. He is a member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and the WPA Section on Epidemiology and Public Health.
Dr. Brown’s main area of research is on the identification of early antecedents for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and autism. Among his major findings, he was the first to demonstrate that serologically documented prenatal exposure to influenza, rubella, toxoplasmosis, and inflammatory biomarkers are potential risk factors for schizophrenia.
He is PI on an NIMH-funded research grant aimed at identifying early developmental exposures for schizophrenia in a large national Finnish birth cohort, in collaboration with Turku University and NIHW, and is examining early antecedents for autism and bipolar disorder in this cohort. Dr. Brown is also PI on an NIMH-funded study with Kaiser Permanente and the Public Health Institute, which is investigating in utero exposures and bipolar disorder in the CHDS birth cohort.
In addition, he and his team are examining early developmental insults and neuroanatomic and neuropsychological abnormalities. Dr. Brown is an author or co-author of over 90 peer-reviewed publications, reviews, and book chapters.
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Undergraduate: John Hopkins University, B.A., 1983
Graduate: Mailman School of Public Health, M.P.H., 2007
Medical School: Jefferson Medical College, M.D., 1987
Internship: Montefiore Hospital, Medicine/Psychiatry, 1987 - 1988
Residency: Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, General Psychiatry, 1988 - 1991
Fellowship: Columbia University, Schizophrenia Research, 1991-1994
Board Certifications: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
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• Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
• Bipolar Disorder
• Epidemiology
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Address:
NYSPI Kolb Annex
Room 125 Unit/Box:23
1051 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10032
Phone: 212-543-5629
Fax: 212-543-6225
asb11@columbia.edu
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| I am interested in improving our understanding of the relationship between early developmental insults and risk of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and autism, as well as the effects of these insults on brain structure and function.
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1. Brown AS, Vinogradov S, Kremem WS, Poole JH, Deicken RF, Penner JD, McKeague IW, Kochetkova A, Kern D, Schaefer CA: Prenatal infection and executive dysfunction in adult schizophrenia. American Journal of Psychiatry 2009;166: 683-690
2. Brown AS, Deicken RF, Vinogradov S, Kremem WS, Poole JH, Penner JD, Kochetkova A, Kern D, Schaefer CA: Prenatal infection and cavum septum pellucidum in adult schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research 2009;108: 285-287
3. Insel BJ, Schaefer CA, McKeague IW, Susser ES, Brown AS: Maternal iron deficiency and the risk of schizophrenia in offspring. Archives of General Psychiatry 2008;65: 1136-1144
4. Perrin MA, Chen H, Sandberg DE, Malaspina D, Brown AS: Growth trajectory during early life and risk of adult schizophrenia. British Journal of Psychiatry 2007;191: 512-520
5. Brown AS, Cohen P, Harkavy-Friedman J, Babulas V, Malaspina D, Gorman JM, Susser ES: A.E. Bennett Research Award. Prenatal rubella, premorbid abnormalities, and adult schizophrenia. Biol Psychiatry 2001;49: 473-486
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