Chief, Director

Dr. Kimberly A. Brown is the Chief of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and the Associate Medical Director of the Transplant Institute at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Dr. Brown joined the Henry Ford Medical Group in 1995 as medical director of the liver transplant program and was appointed Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology in 2003. In addition, she served as the program director for the GI fellowship program from 2003 to 2008. She has served on the Board of Governors of the Henry Ford Medical Group for 9 years, the Henry Ford Hospital and System Network Board for 4 years, and has served on several hospital and Board of Governors committees.

Dr. Brown is a member of the American Gastroenterology Association, the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease, the American College of Gastroenterology, The European Association for the Study of Liver Disease, and the American Society of Transplantation. She is a past co-chair of the Michigan Chapter of the American Liver Foundation. She has served as the treasurer of the Board of the American Society of Transplantation, and on the Executive Board for the Liver and Intestine Community of Practice for AST and is involved with several committees for the society. She is currently a member of the UNOS Liver and Intestines Committee and the National Review Board for Liver Transplantation. Dr. Brown is the past Secretary of the AASLD and currently serves on the AASLD Finance Committee.

She has trained over 100 fellows in the field and has published over 90 articles, 125 abstracts and 8 book chapters/reviews and is past Associate Editor for Clinical Liver Disease and current Associate Editor for Liver Transplantation. Dr. Brown is a very active clinical investigator in viral hepatitis, advanced liver disease and post liver transplant management.