Michael Brown BA BM BCh MRCP PhD DTM&H

vCard

Background

Mike Brown is a physician specialising in Infectious Diseases. He completed his specialist training in North London in 2005, and started a HEFCE "new blood" Clinical Senior Lectureship at the School, with an honorary consultant physician appointment at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, University College Hospital, where he has clinical sessions in Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine, HIV and Acute General Medicine.

Previously he studied for a PhD through the School on a Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellowship in Clinical Tropical Medicine, during which time he spent 2 years at the MRC programme in Entebbe, Uganda.

Teaching

Mike Brown teaches on the DTM&H,the MSc in Tropical Medicine and International Health and the short course in Travel Medicine.

He is Study Unit Organiser for the AIDS module of the Distance Learning MSc in Infectious Diseases, and sits on the exam board for the MSc in Tropical Medicine & International Health

Research

His PhD was on helminth co-infection and HIV progression in Uganda, and explored clinical, epidemiological and immunological aspects of co-infection and antihelminthic treatment in an HIV-infected cohort in Entebbe. This was under the supervision of Alison Elliott (LSHTM) and Frances Gotch (Imperial).

He has also undertaken clinical research on infectious diseases, most recently a study on TB diagnostic strategies in new migrants to the UK. Since arriving at the School he has been pursuing interests in migrant health and in epidemiological and clinical aspects of helminth infection.

Selected publications

• Brown, M.; Varia, H.; Bassett, P.; Davidson, R.N.; Wall, R.; Pasvol, G.; Prospective study of sputum induction, gastric washing, and bronchoalveolar lavage for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in patients who are unable to expectorate. Clin Infect Dis, 2007; 44(11):1415-20
• Brown, M.; Mawa, P.A.; Joseph, S.; Bukusuba, J.; Watera, C.; Whitworth, J.A.; Dunne, D.W.; Elliott, A.M.; Treatment of Schistosoma mansoni Infection Increases Helminth-Specific Type 2 Cytokine Responses and HIV-1 Loads in Coinfected Ugandan Adults. J Infect Dis, 2005; 191(10):1648-57
• Brown, M.; Kizza, M.; Watera, C.; Quigley, M.A.; Rowland, S.; Hughes, P.; Whitworth, J.A.; Elliott, A.M.; Helminth Infection Is Not Associated with Faster Progression of HIV Disease in Coinfected Adults in Uganda. J Infect Dis, 2004; 190(10):1869-79
• Viney, M.E.; Brown, M.; Omoding, N.E.; Bailey, J.W.; Gardner, M.P.; Roberts, E.; Morgan, D.; Elliott, A.M.; Whitworth, J.A.; Why Does HIV Infection Not Lead to Disseminated Strongyloidiasis? J Infect Dis , 2004; 190 (12 ):2175-80
• Brown, M.; Bukusuba, J.; Hughes, P.; Nakiyingi, J.; Watera, C.; Elliott, A.; Whitworth, J. Screening for intestinal helminth infestation in a semi-urban cohort of HIV-infected people in Uganda: a combination of techniques may enhance diagnostic yield in the absence of multiple stool samples Tropical Doctor, 2003; 33(2):72-6
• Brown, M.; Miiro, G.; Nkurunziza, P.; Watera, C.; Quigley, M.A.; Dunne, D.W.; Whitworth, J.A.; Elliott, A.M.; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI, NEMATODE INFECTIONS, AND PROGRESSION TO ACTIVE TUBERCULOSIS AMONG HIV-1-INFECTED UGANDANS. Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2006; 74(5):819-25
• Brown, M.; Mawa, P.A.; Kaleebu, P.; Elliott, A.M.; Helminths and HIV infection: epidemiological observations on immunological hypotheses. Parasite Immunol, 2006; 28(11):613-23
• de Silva, S.; Walsh, J.; Brown, M.; Symptomatic Schistosoma mansoni Infection as an Immune Restoration Phenomenon in a Patient Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy. Clin Infect Dis, 2006; 42(2):303-4

Full publications listing (since 2001)