Richard Brown MD, MPH
Rich is a Madison-based tenured professor. His training includes college and medical school at Brown University, the family practice residency at Overlook Hospital in Summit, New Jersey, and the Robert Wood Johnson Faculty Development Fellowship at the University of Washington. He joined the UW DFM in 1990. Rich's research interests involve use of innovative technologies and clinical systems to deliver substance abuse prevention and intervention services. He teaches about substance abuse screening and intervention and related topics in several health professional schools and programs at UW-Madison. Until 2006, he saw patients at the Northeast Family Medicine Center. He gave up patient care to serve as clinical director of the Wisconsin Initiative to Promote Healthy Lifestyles (see www.wiphl.org), a 5-year, $12.6 million project to enhance delivery of alcohol and drug screening, brief intervention, referral, and treatment (SBIRT) services, and other behavioral prevention services, in primary care clinics throughout Wisconsin.
Related Content
DFM Site Pages
- Bring Awareness to Produce Real Change: A Unified Statewide Strategy for Reducing and Preventing Risky Alcohol Use in Wisconsin (February 2012)
- Preparing Health Educators to Address Behavioral Determinants of Health (December 2011)
- Building Effective Partnerships to Reduce Risky and Problem Alcohol Use (June 2011)
- Implementing Behavioral Health in Primary Care by Leveraging AHRQ Networks (May 2011)
- Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) (May 2011)
- Telephone and Mail Intervention for Alcohol Use Disorders (TAMI) (October 2007)
- Strengthening Treatment Access and Retention-Quality Improvement (STAR-QI) (September 2007)
- Wisconsin Initiative to Promote Healthy Lifestyles (WIPHL) (September 2007)
External news links
- Video: Dr. Richard Brown on Preventative Medicine, Federal Healthcare (January 2012)
- Just Askin', About Booze and Drugs (January 2010)
Newsletter articles
- Rich Brown, John Frey are Collaborators on Four New WPP Grants (July 2012)
- WIPHL Expands with New BSI, Health Educator Training Initiatives (January 2012)
- WIPHL Grows Through High Volumes, New Research, and Statewide Support (October 2008)
- TAMI Project Update (October 2007)
Podcasts
- What a Typical Alcohol Screening in BSI Looks Like, Part 1 (December 2012)
- Universal Behavioral Screening and Intervention in Healthcare (September 2012)
- Patients Speak for SBIRT Wisconsin (March 2010)
- SBIRT Wisconsin Stakeholder Testimonial (March 2010)
DFM Press Releases
- Wisconsin Initiative to Promote Healthy Lifestyles (WIPHL) Helps Bellin Health Launch New Behavioral Screening and Intervention Services (November 2011)
- Program Will Create Certified Health Educators to Address the 7 Most Pressing Behavioral Issues (September 2011)
- Preventing Substance Abuse: Dr. Rich Brown Presents at National Conference (August 2011)
- Project to Disseminate Alcohol, Drug and Depression Screening (December 2010)