SGO Past President Carol L. Brown, MD, Appointed to ACS Board of Regents

Carol L. Brown, MD,

Carol L. Brown, MD, FACS, FACOG, was appointed to the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Board of Regents (B/R) on Oct. 17. SGO would like to congratulate Dr. Brown, who served as SGO President for the 2018-2019 term.

Dr. Brown is an esteemed professor of obstetrics and gynecology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY. She is associate cancer center director, diversity and health equity; senior vice-president and chief health equity officer, and the Nicholls-Biondi Chair for Health Equity, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City. She also is attending surgeon, gynecology service, and vice-chair, health equity, department of surgery, Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, New York City.

She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, and her medical degree (MD) from Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. She completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and her fellowship in gynecologic oncology and her National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded research fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. A Fellow of the ACS since 1999, Dr. Brown serves on the Manhattan Credentials Committee.