Arthur Brown, M.D., ’63 honored by American College of Physicians Arthur E. Brown, M.D., ’63, chief and medical director at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, was elected to a Mastership by the American College of Physicians (ACP) for his significant contributions to the field of medicine. In 1981, Brown was among the first researchers to formally publish the description of the clinical syndrome that would later become known as Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). The first Mastership in the College was presented in 1923 and Masters are selected for “personal character, positions of honor, contributions toward furthering the purposes of the ACP, eminence in practice or in medical research, or other attainments in science or in the art of medicine.” Masters must be highly accomplished with achievements in research, education, health care initiatives, volunteerism or administrative positions. According to ACP, Mastership is conferred only on a select number of worthy candidates who are deemed distinguished through the practice of internal medicine. The awards committee said Brown represented “strength of character, integrity, bravery, perseverance, compassion, devotion, and steadiness, as well as clinical competence.” Brown said he considers it a “unique and privileged experience” to have a career as a doctor. “To be recognized by one’s peers is the ultimate acknowledgement of success in a chosen profession. Thus, I am extremely grateful to be a physician and to be honored in this manner,” he said. Brown was presented with the Mastership at an April convocation ceremony in Boston. Brown has been an infectious disease specialist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for more than 35 years, helping to diagnose and treat bacterial, fungal, viral, and parasitic infections in thousands of patients with cancer. He has been involved in researching new methods of preventing and treating the infectious complications of cancer and the immunocompromised host. As chief and medical director of Kettering’s Employee Health and Wellness Service, Brown is also responsible for maintaining the health and safety of more than 15,000 employees and non-employees of the hospital. Additionally, he is a professor of clinical medicine and pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College and a fellow of both the Infectious Diseases Society of
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“I am extremely grateful to be a physician and to be honored in this manner.” — Arthur E. Brown, M.D., ’63 America and the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America. Brown is past president of both the Infectious Disease Society of New York and the New York County Society of Internal Medicine. He has served on the Infections in Patients with Cancer Panel of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, and as a consultant to the Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In 2000, he was inducted into the Leon G. Smith Infectious Disease Institute Hall of Fame. Brown received the ACP New York Chapter Laureate Award in 2009. Brown has served on the editorial boards of many publications including Microbial Drug Resistance, European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, and Infections in Medicine. His research interests focus on the prevention and therapy of infectious complications of neoplastic diseases in adult and pediatric oncology patients. Brown, who graduated from Bucknell University and Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, has been a member of the Peddie Board of Trustees since 1999.