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Dr. Brown, an internist, earned his M.D. at the University of Oklahoma in 1921. After spending time in private practice, he was a resident at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, an instructor at Harvard, a professor at the University of Michigan, and finally, he became the head of Temple University’s Department of Medicine. He was elected President of the Philadelphia County Medical Society in 1944 and was appointed Dean at Hahnemann two years later.
As Dean, Dr. Brown began the “New Hahnemann”, bringing in the outstanding scientists who became its leaders: microbiologist Amedeo Bondi who became the first Dean of the Graduate School; pharmacologist Joseph DiPalma, textbook author and Dean from 1967 to 1983 and beyond; neuroanatomist Raymond Truex, who outlined the heart conduction system and whose neuroanatomy atlas is renowned. Homeopathy became an elective course, and in 1949 the Graduate School of the Basic Medical Sciences was established. Under Dr. Brown, the Department of Neurology included classes in psychiatry and a new Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine was established. He left Hahnemann in 1955 to help organize Seton Hall, a new medical school in New Jersey.