Division of
Gastroenterology
and Hepatology

Denver Health Medical Center Faculty

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William R. Brown, MD

Krishnavel V. Chathadi, MD

Thomas McGonagle, MD

John W. Singleton, MD

Neil W. Toribara, MD

 

Education

• Medical School:University of Wisconsin Medical School - MD 1959
• Internship/Residency:
• Internship - Denver General Hospital, Denver, CO 7/59-6/60
• Residency in Medicine - Veterans Administration Hospital and University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver, CO 7/60-6/62
• Fellowship: Research Fellow and Assistant Research Physician, University of California (San Francisco) and University of Singapore, 7/62-6/65
• International Center for Medical Research and Training Fellowship in Gastroenterology, University of Colorado 7/65-6/67
• Chief Resident in Medicine, University of Colorado Medical Center 7/67-6/68
• Special NIH Fellow, sponsored by Dr. Kimishige Ishizaka, Director of Research, Children's Asthma Research Institute and Hospital, Denver, Colorado 7/68-6/70
• Board Certified in Internal Medicine

Honors and Awards

• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, University of Wisconsin Medical School, 1958
• Borden Award for Outstanding Research Project in Preclinical Years, University of Wisconsin Medical School, 1959
• Blackwenn Award for Clinical Promise, University of Wisconsin Medical School, 1959
• Veterans Administration Clinical Investigatorship,1971-74
• Visiting Professor, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan and Tokai University, Japan (April-October), 1982
• Research Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (April-October), 1982
• Veterans Administration Medical Investigatorship, 1985-91

Faculty Appointments

• Instructor in Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 1967-68
• Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 1968-74
• Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 1974-82
• Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 1982-present
• Chief of Gastroenterology, Denver VA Medical Center, 1980-88 and1990-2001
• Acting Head, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 1987-88
• Head, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 1988-1996
• Physician, Gastroenterology, Denver Health Medical Center 2002-present

Research Interests

Immunology of the gastrointestinal tract

Representative Publications

1. Tyler KL, Sokol RJ, Oberhaus SM, Le M, Kanner FM, Murphy JR, Low R, Brown WR: Detection reovirus RNA in hepatobiliary tissues from patients with extrahepatic biliary atresia and choledochal cysts. Hepatology 27:1475-83,1998. (download PDF)
2. Bennet JD, Brown WR, Kotzin BL. Regional variation in the lamina propria T-cell receptor Va repertoire in normal human colon. Clin Imunol 90:38-46, 1999. (download PDF)
3. Vasquez-Torres A, Jones-Carson J, Baumler AJ, Falkrow S, Valdivia R, Brown WR, Le M, Berggren R, Parks WT, Fong F: Extraintestinal dissemination of Salmonella via CD18-expressing phagocytes. Nature 401:804-8, 1999. (download PDF)
4. Kobayashi K, Yagasaki M, Harada N, Chichibu K, Hibi T, Yoshida T, Brown WR, Morikawa M: Detection of Fc y gamma binding protein antigen in human sera and its relationship with autoimmune disease. Immunology Letters 79: 229-35, 2001. (download PDF)
5. Kobayashi K, Ogata H, Morikawa M, Iijima S, Harada N, Yoshida T, Brown WR, Inoue N, Hamada Y, Ishii H, Watanabe M, Hibi T: Distribution and partial characterization of IgG Fc binding protein in various mucin-producing cells and body fluids. Gut 51: 169-76, 2002. (download PDF)
6. Mahnke D, Chen YK, Antillon MR, Brown WR, Mattison R, Shah RJ. Interventional endoscopy at an ambulatory endoscopy center: Is it time? Submitted. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 2004. (download PDF)
7. Hasan AG, Brown WR. A model for morbidity-mortality conferences in gastroenterology. Gastrointest Endosc 2007.