Melissa M. Brown, MD, MN, MBA
Principal; President and CEO
Dr. Brown presides over the Center for Value-Based Medicine® as President and Chief Executive Officer after serving as its Founding Director since 1998. Dr. Brown currently is a Professor of Ophthalmology at Thomas Jefferson University and a former Associate Surgeon at the Cataract and Primary Eye Care Service at Wills Eye Hospital. The author of over 200 publications, she is also a reviewer for multiple peer-reviewed scientific journals and former Co-Chief Editor of Evidence-Based Ophthalmology, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins publisher’s launch into evidence-based medicine and cost-effectiveness analysis. She is the lead author of Evidence-Based to Value-Based Medicine, an acclaimed text published by the AMA Press (2005) which defines the field of value-based medicine and its application to the clinical setting.
A former twice nominee for the United States Congress, she has also served on the Advisory Council of the National Institute of Aging, appointed by then Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tommy Thompson.
Dr. Brown graduated from Keuka College with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1972 and received her Master of Nursing (MN) degree from Emory University as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Adult Health in 1976. She then taught on the faculty of the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania.
She returned to Jefferson Medical College where she earned her MD in 1986. Following internship at Chestnut Hill Hospital, she completed a residency in ophthalmology at Wills Eye Hospital and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology. Dr. Brown obtained her MBA in Strategic Management from the Haub School of Business at Saint Joseph’s University’s in 1998.
Dr. Brown has been named to Who’s Who in Medicine and Health Care, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the East, National Register’s Who’s Who in Executives and Business, Strathmore’s Who’s Who 2000 Millennium Edition, Who’s Who Among Entrepreneurs and America’s Top Ophthalmologists.