David Brown

David Brown, a journalist and physician, has been a staff writer for The Washington Post since 1991. He has covered medical research, the AIDS epidemic, clinical practice, medical ethics, epidemiology, global health, and numerous non-medical scientific subjects. He majored in American Studies at Amherst College, graduating in 1973. He worked as a reporter at The Greenwood (Miss.) Commonwealth and The Baltimore Sun before entering the Medical College of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1987. While in medical school, he contributed occasional science stories to National Public Radio and won the 1987 William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition, an annual contest open to American medical students. He served a three-year residency in internal medicine at the University of Maryland Hospital, interrupted by a year of free-lance journalism. He works four days a week at the Post and two-thirds of a day at a general internal medicine clinic in Baltimore supervising third-year medical students.

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