Randall A Brown

Biography

 

Randall A. Brown, MD, MBA

 

1198 N. Golden Palomino Place                                             Cell (520) 991 2321   

Tucson, AZ 85715                                                                  randallB9@gmail.com

 

• Physician with broad scientific and clinical medical background
• Excellent communication and writing skills
• Dedicated team member with solid integrity
• MBA graduate with strong interest in healthcare management
• Extensive experience in healthcare data informatics and predictive analytics

 

Experience

 

Primary Care Staff Physician, Tucson VA Medical Center Starting July 2015

• Direct patient care in Primary Care Medicine Clinic
• Research on clinical application of the Care Assessment Needs tool (CANS SCORE)
• Preliminary exploration of ArcGIS Geospatial mapping applications to healthcare
• Hospital Readmission Committee, Population Health Committee

 

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Clinical Scholar2006 to present

College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

• Supervise and teach medical residents and medical students

 

University Medical Center/UAHN/Banner University Healthcare 2006 to 2015*

North Hills UMC Internal Medicine Clinic

• Inpatient and Outpatient direct patient care
• Supervise and teach residents in both inpatient and outpatient settings

*UMC taken over by UAHN 2012 and UAHN purchased by Banner Healthcare 2015

 

Research Associate, Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIS Dept., Eller College of Management, University of Arizona, 2010 to present (https://ai.arizona.edu/)

• Medical Consultant/Domain Expert,  Artificial Intelligence Lab on research in Data Mining EHRs, Healthcare Predictive Analytics, Consumer Healthcare, Web Health Portal Design and Medical Device Security
• Development of the Diabeticlink health portal  (www.diabeticlink.org) and Silverlink wireless home health monitoring system (www.silverlink247.com)
• Instrumental in development of the Diabeticlink “risk engine” for prediction of hospitalization of diabetic patients

 

 

 

 

 

Hospitalist Physician, 2003-2006 

IPC Management, Tucson, AZ

• Inpatient medical consultations. Recruited new physicians and medical facilities, increasing patient visits 30% and improved company revenue  (IPC Management  launched successful IPO in January  2008, (ticker IPCM) acquired by TeamHealth (ticker TMH) in November 2015 for $1.6 billion http://investors.hospitalist.com/releases.cfm )

 

Senior Staff Physician, 1989-2003

Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI

• Supervised and taught residents patient care, contributed to development of Coumadin anti-coagulation clinic and hyperlipidemia clinic protocols 

 

Staff Physician, 1986-1989

D. L. Waters Hospital, Jackson, MI

• Underserved patient care service to payback obligation for Public Health Service Scholarship for medical school tuition,  Supervised physician assistants

 

Education

 

Edx online

HarvardX Statistics and R

Microsoft – Dat203.2x Principles of Machine Learning

Columbia University DS101X StatisticalThinking for Data Science and Analytics

Columbia University DS102x Machine Learning for Data Science and Analytics

Columbia University DS103x Enabling Technologies for Data Science and Analytics:  The Internet of Things

 

Masters of Biomedical Informatics, Oregon Health Sciences University Online,

Clinical Track Completed Courses:

 

Introduction to Biomedical Informatics 510

Medical Decision Making 538

Statistics PHPM 524

Consumer Health 520

Intro to Java Programming 540

 

Udacity Google X labs online free University Computer Science 101, 2012

Python computer programming

                                

Master of Business Administration, August 2008 

University of Arizona, Eller College of Management, Tucson, AZ    

• GPA 3.8/4.0, McGuire Entrepreneurship Program participant

                                

Diplomat, Internal Medicine Board Certification

• American Board of Internal Medicine, Sept 16, 1987

 

Licensed to practice in the State of Arizona

 

Intern and Resident Training, 1983-1986

University of Michigan Affiliated Hospitals, Ann Arbor, MI

                       

Doctor of Medicine (MD), 1979-1983

Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL

 

Biochemistry Graduate Studies, 1976-1979

Southern Illinois University,Carbondale, IL

• Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant Appointments  GPA 4.0/4.0

 

B.A., Chemistry,1976

Southern Illinois University,Carbondale, IL

 

B.S., Psychology,1974

University of Illinois, Urbana

 

Publications, Presentations and Expert Panels

 

• In Press November 2016 MIS Quarterly:  “Healthcare Predictive Analytics for Risk Profiling in Chronic Care: A Bayesian Multi-Task Learning Approach”,

      Yu-Kai Lin, Hsinchun Chen, Randall A. Brown, ShuHsing Li, Hung-Jen Yang

 

• Tucson VA Data Innovation presentation:  “Development of the Diabeticlink Health Portal” Jan 27, 2016

 

• Participant – “National Science Foundation Expert Panel on Smart and Connected Health”, 2015, NSF, Arlington, VA.

 

• Presentation:  “Development of the Diabeticlink Health Portal, a Multidisciplinary Project in Data Mining, Predictive Analytics and Consumer Health”,  National Science Foundation Workshop on Big Data, Jan 29, 2015
• “Healthcare Analytics and Clinical Intelligence: A Risk Prediction Framework for Chronic Care” (June 4, 2014)   Yu-Kai Lin, Hsinchun Chen, Randall A Brown, Shu-Hsing Li and Hung-Jen Yang. Available at Elsevier SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2444025 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2444025

 

 

 

 “MedTime: A Temporal Information Extraction System for Clinical Narratives”, Yu-Kai Lin,  Randall A. Brown, MD, MBA, Hsinchun Chen, PhD, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, i2b2b Clinical Temporal Relations Challenge Competition 2012 http://www.j-biomed-inform.com/article/S1532-0464%2813%2900113-5/pdf

• “Data Mining Large-Scale Electronic Health Records for Clinical Support”

Yu-Kai Lin andRandall A. Brown, University of Arizona  Hung Jen Yang, Min Sheng GeneralHospital, Taiwan September/October 2011, 1541-1672/11/$26.00 © 2011 IEEE  Intelligent Systems Published by the IEEE Computer Society

 

• Pharmacy Safety Quality Improvement, “Implementation of Clinical Decision Support Computer Order Entry Alert for preventing adverse side effects of the administration of promethazine”, University Medical Center, Tucson, AZ 2010

Grant Support

• STTR Phase I:  The Development and Evaluation of an Intelligent Diabetes Self-Management Tool, NSF IIP-1417181, to Caduceus Intelligence Corporation.
• US National Science Foundation Grant IIS-0428241 
• US National Science Foundation Grant CBET-0730908
• Defense Threat Reduction Agency Grant HDTRA10910058
• Taiwan National Science Council Grant NSC101-3114-Y-002-003

Graduate Presentations and Research

• Resident Poster:  “Birds of a feather flock together, a case report of polymicrobial bacteremia with Enterococcus avium presenting as lower extremity weakness and shortness of breath”. American College of Internal Medicine Conference, Fatima Alnaimat MD,  Randall Brown, MD 2010
• Resident Poster, Subclavian Steal.  Dizziness in Outpatient Practice 
  “An interesting case of Alcohol, Drugs, and Arterial Steal in a  73 Year Old Female with Palpitations and Pre-Syncope”,   Scott Underwood, DO, Randall A. Brown, MD; Ben Egner, MD; Vijay Arum Doraiswamy, MD American College of Internal Medicine Conference 2009
• Grand Rounds Presentation Henry Ford Hospital, "The Diagnosis and Treatment of Varicella Pneumonia", HFH, Detroit, MI April 1993
• Graduate presentation, “Endorphins, the Endogenous Opiates”  Southern Illinois University 1979
• Graduate Research  “Transglutaminase Modification of Rhodopsin”, Southern Illinois University, 1979  “Fight for Sight" summer research award 1980

Degrees

• M.B.A. Eller College of Management
• University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States
• M.D. Medicine
• Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois, United States