Stephen D. Brown MD

Dr. Brown is a pediatric radiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital who specializes in prenatal and pediatric body imaging. His work explores professional norms and ethical values that underlie clinical decision-making and communication in the setting of advanced diagnostic and therapeutic technologies. His projects as a PI have included a national survey of prenatal care providers’ attitudes about pregnancy management in the setting of various fetal and maternal conditions, and development of communication skills training programs for prenatal care providers and radiologists. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, he completed a residency in Diagnostic Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and fellowships in Pediatric Radiology and Pediatric Interventional Radiology at Boston Children's Hospital.

Dr. Brown completed the 2003-2004 Fellowship in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School. He is a longstanding member of the Children’s Hospital Ethics Advisory Committee and an Associate Ethicist in the Hospital’s Office of Ethics.

Dr. Brown received a 2006 Children's Hospital Faculty Career Development Award, and he was named an Eleanor and Miles Shore 50th Anniversary Scholar in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the inaugural recipient of the American Roentgen Ray Society Leonard Berlin Scholarship in Medical Professionalism, and a recipient of grants from the Kornfeld Program in Bioethics and Patient Care, the Greenwall Foundation, and the Harvard University Milton Fund. Dr. Brown received a 2011 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Education Scholar Award, and a 2014 Boston Children’s Hospital Academy Medical Educator Award for Innovative Scholarship in Medical Education. Dr. Brown is currently Chair of the RSNA Professionalism Committee.