Dr. Robert E. Brown, MD

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Get to know Pathologist Dr. Robert E. Brown, who serves patients in Houston, Texas.

A seasoned pathologist, Dr. Brown is in practice at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and serves as a Clinical Professor and Medical Director of the Morphoproteomics Laboratory in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the UTHealth McGovern Medical School.

As a comprehensive health science university, the mission of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston is to educate health science professionals, discover and translate advances in the biomedical and social sciences, and model the best practices in clinical care and public health. They pursue this mission in order to advance the quality of human life by enhancing the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease and injury, as well as promoting individual health and community well-being.

Back in 1962, Dr. Brown obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Pre-Medicine at the University of Akron. He graduated with his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia in 1966, and completed his residency in anatomic & clinical pathology at the same educational venue in 1970.

Pathology is a branch of medical science that involves the study and diagnosis of disease through the examination of surgically removed organs, tissues, bodily fluids, and in some cases, the whole body. Pathologists are physicians who specialize in the diagnosis and management of diseases by laboratory methods.

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