Haywood Brown, MD - Duke Medicine

Leadership Chancellor Administration Victor J. Dzau, MD R. Sanders Williams, MD Nancy Andrews, MD, PhD Catherine Lynch Gilliss, DNSc Asif Ahmad Monte D. Brown, MD Robert M. Califf, MD Michael Cuffe, MD Karen Frush, MD Mary Ann Fuchs, RN William J. Fulkerson Jr., MD Ranga R. Krishnan, MB ChB Kenneth C. Morris Michael J. Morsberger Paul Newman Molly O'Neill Robert L. Taber, PhD Douglas B. Vinsel Kerry Watson Huntington F. Willard, PhD Mark Newman, MD Kenneth Kreuzer, PhD Elizabeth DeLong, PhD Brigid Hogan, PhD J. Lloyd Michener, MD Thomas F. Tedder, PhD Harvey Jay Cohen, MD Thomas Petes, PhD James McNamara, MD Haywood Brown, MD David L. Epstein, MD Salvatore Pizzo, MD, PhD Joseph St. Geme III, MD Anthony R. Means, PhD Ranga R. Krishnan, MB ChB Christopher Willett, MD Carl E. Ravin, MD Danny O. Jacobs, MD Board Members
	Home > Leadership > Administration > Haywood Brown, MD Haywood Brown, MD Haywood Brown, MD, is the chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Duke University Medical Center. He also is a nationally recognized specialist in maternal-fetal medicine. A North Carolina native, Brown received his undergraduate degree from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro in 1974 and his MD degree from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem. He completed his training in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences in Knoxville, followed by subspecialty fellowship training in maternal and fetal medicine at Emory University School of Medicine/Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. Brown joined the teaching staff at Louisiana State University in 1987. He left to become director of high-risk obstetric services at Wishard Memorial Hospital, an associate professor of maternal-fetal medicine, and director of the comprehensive maternal and child health project at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis in 1990. He rose through the ranks at Indiana University, becoming a professor and then a clinical professor. He also became an associate professor in the department of medical and molecular genetics at Indiana University in 1994, and the residency program director for the OB-GYN department at St. Vincent Hospitals and Health Services in 1998. He left Indiana in the fall of 2002 to head the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Duke. Brown has served on more than a dozen national committees including the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine, the Food and Drug Administration’s Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs, the U.S. Agriculture Department’s National Advisory Council on Maternal, Infant and Fetal Nutrition, and as chairman of a steering committee for the National Institutes of Health’s Infant Mortality Initiative. He is a member of many professional associations including the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American College of Physician Executives, the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine, the National Perinatal Association, and the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics. He has received numerous honors and awards for his work including an achievement award from the Indiana chapter of the March of Dimes, a recognition award from the National Medical Association’s section of obstetrics and gynecology, and was named five-time as Outstanding Professor in Clinical Sciences by the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition, Brown was named one of America’s Leading Physicians by Black Enterprise magazine in 2001.