Angela L. Brown, MD

From farming to medicine: Brown works toward better heart health

WashU Medicine faculty honored for community engagement

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Angela L. Brown, MD, a professor of medicine in the Cardiovascular Division at WashU Medicine, was one of 55 faculty honored last month with Dean’s Impact Awards for community partnerships. Since 2013, Brown has encouraged better communication between WashU Medicine researchers and people in the community as the co-director of the Center for Community Health Partnership & Research, a part of the Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS) and the Institute for Public Health.

Angela L. Brown, MD, grew up on her family’s farm in southern Arkansas. At the farm’s peak, the family and its crew cultivated 1,500 acres of cotton, rice and soybeans and managed more than 120 head of cattle. Watching her grandparents persevere through the demands of farm life, and her parents balance their careers — her mother was a high school business teacher, and her father worked in construction — Brown learned the values of hard work and an “anything is possible” mindset.

The farm operation began in the 1920s, when her maternal grandfather inherited 20 acres of farmland. Growing up on the farm, and because Brown and her mother were both only children, Brown’s maternal grandparents played a large role in shaping the person she has become.

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