Professor
randy.brown@fammed.wisc.edu
(608) 263-6558
610 N Whitney Way (Madison)
After family medicine residency, Dr. Brown served as faculty at the Stanislaus County Family Practice Residency where he was also Medical Director of Stanislaus County’s methadone treatment facility. Dr. Brown came to Madison in 2001 to participate in the NIH/NRSA Primary Care Research Fellowship, with focus on addiction health services research, and he attained a PhD in UW’s Dept of Population Health Sciences in 2009. His current research includes investigations in opioid misuse screening and prevention, mobile technology to support recovery, promotion of medication prescribing for alcohol use and opioid use disorders in primary care, and potential therapeutic applications of psilocybin and MDMA. He is the Director of the Program for Research, Outreach, Therapeutics, and Education in the Addictions (PROTEA) in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.
He serves as a consulting physician in Addiction Medicine at UW Hospital (where he is the Director of the Center for Addictive Disorders), the UW HIV/AIDS Comprehensive Care Center, and at the UW Multi-Disciplinary Clinic for Alcohol-Related Liver Disease. He has been a certified prescriber of buprenorphine as adjunctive treatment for opioid dependence since 2001. Dr. Brown is also the Founding Director of the UW Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program and the Director of the Madison VA Interprofessional Advanced Fellowship in Addiction Treatment.
He is a Director of the American Board of Addiction Medicine and the American College of Academic Addiction Medicine.
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