Faculty

Kevin K. Brown, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine

EDUCATION/TRAINING

St John’s University, Minnesota (Summa Cum Laude)

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

UCD
4200 E. Ninth Ave.
Denver, CO 80262
Tel: 303.398.1289 (1621)
brownk@njc.org


POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

Medical Internship Training, Presbyterian Hosp and Pacific Med Cntr, San Francisco. John Gamble, Chairman of Medicine

Medical Residency Training, Providence Medical Cntr, Portland, OR. David Gilbert, Chairman of Medicine

Chief Medical Residency, Providence Medical Cntr, Portland, OR. David Gilbert, Chairman of Medicine

Fellow, Pulmonary/ Critical Care Medicine, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME. Peter Bates, Head, Pulmonary Division

Research Fellow, Pulmonary/ Critical Care Medicine, National Jewish Cntr for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine and University of Colorado HSC Denver, CO, Marvin Schwarz, Head Pulmonary Division

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Assistant Director of Medical Education, Providence Medical Cntr, Portland, OR

Instructor, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Sciences University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado

Asst Faculty Member, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver Colorado

Asst Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Sciences University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado

Director, Clinical Interstitial Lung Disease Program, National Jewish Medical and Research Ctr

PAPERS PUBLISHED IN REFEREED JOURNALS

  1. Wernick RM, Smith DL, Houghton DC, Phillips DS, Booth JL, Runckel DN, Johnson DS, Brown KK, Gaboury CL. Reliability of histologic scoring for lupus nephritis: a community based evaluation. Ann Intern Med 1993;119:805-811.
  2. Martinez JB, King TE, Brown K, Jennings C, Borish L, Mortenson R, Khan T, Bost T, Riches D. Increased expression of the interleukin 10 gene by alveolar macrophages in interstitial lung disease. American Journal of Physiology (Lung) 1997, 273(3 Pt 1):L676-83.
  3. Brown K, Henson P, Maclouf J, Moyle M, Ely J, Worthen GS. Neutrophil-platelet adhesion: relative roles of platelet P-selectin and neutrophil ß2 (CD18) integrins. Amer J Resp Cell Mol Biol 1998;18:100-110.
  4. Nick JA, S K Young, K Brown, N J Avdi, P G Arndt, B T Suratt, M Janes, P.M Henson, G S Worthen. Role of p38 MAP Kinase in a Murine Model of Pulmonary Inflammation. Journal of Immunology 2000; 164:2151-2159
  5. Park JS, Brown KK, Tuder RM, Hale VA, King TE, Lynch DA. Respiratory Bronchiolitis Associated Interstitial Lung Disease: Radiographic Features with Clinical and Pathologic Correlation. JCAT (In press)
  6. Lee JS, Brown KK, Cool C, Lynch DA. Diffuse Pulmonary Neuroendocrine Cell Hyperplasia:Radiologic, Histopathologic and Clinical Features. JCAT (In press)
  7. Vourlekis JS, Brown KK, Cool CD, Young DS, Cherniack RM, King TE Jr., Schwarz MI: Acute Interstitial Pneumonitis: Initial Presentation and Subsequent Course. Medicine 2000;79(6):369-378
  8. King TE, Schwarz MI, Brown KK, Tooze JA, Colby TV, Waldron JA, Flint A, Thurlbeck W, Cherniack RM. Relation Between Histopathology and Mortality in a Prospective Study of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis AJRCCM (In press)
  9. King TE, Tooze JA, Schwarz MI, Brown KK, Cherniack RM. Prediction of Survival in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Prediction of Survival in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Development of a Clinical, Radiological, Physiological Scoring System and Survival Model AJRCCM (In press)
  10. Brown KK, Worthen GS, Young SR, Henson PH. Clarithromycin limits acute KC-gene product induced alveolitis by modifiying neutrophil actin assembly. (Submitted)
  11. Jensen SP, Lynch DA, Brown KK, Wenzel SE, Newell JD. High Resolution CT Features of Sever Asthma and Bronchiolitis Obliterans (Submitted)
  12. Markopoulou KD, Cool CD, Elliot TL, Lynch DA, Hale VA, Brown KK, Schwarz MI, Tuder RM. Obliterative bronchiolitis: Varying presentations and clinico-pathological correlation Eur Resp J (In press)
  13. Hirsh J, Collier D, Brown KK. Diaphragmatic Dysfunction is a Cause of Dyspnea and Restrictive Pulmonary Physiology in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis (submitted)
  14. Vourlekis JS, Schwarz MI, Cool CD, Tuder, RM, King TE, Brown KK. Nonspecific Interstitial Pneumonitis: The Sole Histologic Expression of Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis (submitted)
  15. Lee JS, Lynch DA, Sharma S, Brown KK, Muller NL. Organizing Pneumonia: Prognostic Implications of High-Resoultion CT Features (submitted)
  16. Vourlekis JS, Schwarz MI, Cherniack RM, Curran-Everett D, Cool CD, Tuder RM, Lynch DA, King TE, Brown KK. Longitudinal Analysis of Survival in Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis:The Impact of Pulmonary Fibrosis (submitted)

BOOKS AND REVIEWS

  1. Brown K, King TE Jr. Recent Advances in Interstitial Lung Disease, In. Bone RC, Petty TL (eds): 1995 Year Book of Pulmonary Disease, St. Louis: Mosby Year Book, 1995.
  2. King TE Jr, Mortenson R, Brown K. Granulomatous Vasculitides Kelley, WN (ed) Textbook of Internal Medicine. 3rd Ed, Lippincot-Raven, Philadelphia, 1996.
  3. Brown KK, King TE Jr. Treatment of chronic eosinophilic pneumonia. In: UpToDate in Medicine. BDR, Inc. Wellesley, MA. 1996. (CD ROM)
  4. Brown KK, Sullivan EJ. Respiratory bronchiolitis: Etiology, pathogenesis and diagnosis. Pulm Crit Care Update (serial online). 1998; Lesson 12, Volume 12. Available at: http://chest-main.edoc.com/pccu/lesson12-12.html
  5. Sullivan EJ, Brown K. Interstitial lung diseases. In: Egan’s Fundamentals of Respiratory Care, 7th edition, Mosby, St Louis,1998
  6. Brown KK, Newman LS. Diagnosis and Staging of Interstitial Lung Disease. Semin Clinical Immunol 1999;17:29-36
  7. Brown KK. Approach to the Patient with Interstitial Lung Disease. In: Kelley, WN (ed) Textbook of Internal Medicine. 4th Ed, Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2000.
  8. Lynch DA, Brown KK, Lee JS, Hale VAE. Diffuse Infiltrative Lung Disease. In: Lynch DA, Newell JD (eds) Imaging of Diffuse Lung Disease. BC Decker, Inc. Hamilton, 2000.
  9. Vorulekis J, Brown KK. Thoracic complications of Rheumatoid Arthritis. Pulm Crit Care Update (serial online). 2000; (In press) Available at: http://chest-main.edoc.com/pccu/
  10. Schwarz MI, Brown KK. Thoracic Rare Disease Series Small Vessel Vasculitis of the Lung (Necrotizing Pulmonary Capillaritis). Thorax, 2000;55(6):502-10
  11. Brown KK. New Approaches for Managing Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Overview of Management and Predictors of Outcome. ATS Continuing Education Monograph Series 2000.
  12. Raghu G, Brown KK, Noble P, Ziesche R, Colby T. Interferon Gamma-1b in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Reanalysis of a Published Study. ATS Continuing Education Monograph Series 2000.
  13. Clay AS, Behnia M, Brown KK. Mitochondrial Disease: A Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Perspective. Chest 2001;120(2):634-648
  14. Vourlekis JS, Brown KK. Acute Interstitial Pneumonia. Journal Resp Diseases 2000;22(1):14-21
  15. Cosgrove G, Vourlekis JS, Brown KK. Facing the diagnostic challenges of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia. Journal Resp Diseases 2001;22(5):307-322
  16. Vourlekis JS, Brown KK, Schwarz MI. Acute Interstitial Pneumonia. Seminars in Respiratory Medicine 2001;22(4):399-408