Dr. Brown grew up in Denver, Colorado, but moved to Salt Lake City in time to graduate from Highland High School in 1977.   He then attended the University of Utah, receiving his B.S. in Chemistry, and graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1984.  Dr. Brown immediately entered medical school, also at the University of Utah, where he graduated in 1988. 

Dr. Brown pursued an internship in Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in 1988.  From 1989-1991 Dr. Brown completed his residency, also in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa.  He remained there between 1991-1993, where Dr. Brown filled a Fellowship opportunity in the Cardiology Division.

Upon completion of his Cardiology training, Dr. Brown accepted a position at the Medical Center Physicians, P.A. in Nampa, Idaho.  From 1993-1997, Dr. Brown also served as the Director of the Cardiac Catherterization Lab and Cardiology Services Department at the Mercy Medical Center.  In 1994 he was appointed Chairman of the Intensive Care Unit Committee at the Mercy Medical Center.  Then, in 1997, Mercy Medical Center's Department of Internal Medicine appointed him Vice-Chairman.

Shortly afterwards, Dr. Brown accepted an offer to join the Heart Center in Salt Lake City, where he has been ever since.

Dr. Brown has written and presented numerous publications in his medical field.  In 1992, Dr. Brown received the University of Iowa Institutional Research Fellowship Award.  In 1993, Dr. Brown was honored as the Chief Fellow at the University of Iowa.

He is on the National Board of Medical Examiners, the American Board of Internal Medicine, and also the American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease.  He is a member of the American College of Physicians, and is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology.