James Brown, MD

Education
Clinical Instructor, Assistant Research Scientist, 06/1981 - Pulmonary research, University of California and Cardiovascular Research Institute
Fellow, 06/1979 - Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California
Chief Medical Resident, 06/1976 - Internal Medicine, University of California Medical Center
R3, 06/1975 - Internal Medicine, University of California
R1 and R2, 06/1974 - Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital
MD, 06/1972 - Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
BA, 06/1968 - Pre-Med, History, Yale University
Honors and Awards
  • Outstanding Clinician Award, California Thoracic Society, 2015
  • Member, Council of Master Clinicians, UCSF Department of Medicine, 2012
  • Excellence in Outpatient Teaching Award, UCSF VAMC PRIME Program, 2011
  • Annual Faculty Teaching Award, UCSF Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program, 2003
  • Excellence in Outpatient Teaching Award, UCSF VAMC PRIME Program, 1997
  • Western Association of Physicians, University of California, San Francisco, 1995
  • Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1989
  • Western Society for Clinical Investigation, University of California, San Francisco, 1985
  • Parker B. Francis Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 1979-1981
Publications

  1. Núñez ER, Slatore CG, Tanner NT, Melzer AC, Crothers KA, Lewis JA, Fabbrini AE, Brown JK, Wiener RS. National Survey of Lung Cancer Screening Practices in Veterans Health Administration Facilities. American journal of preventive medicine 2023. PMID: 37169315


  2. Núñez ER, Slatore CG, Tanner NT, MD, Melzer AC, Crothers K, Lewis JA, Fabbrini A, Brown JK, Wiener RS.. National Survey of Current Lung Cancer Screening Program Models and Practices in Veterans Health Administration Facilities American journal of preventive medicine 2023. PMID:


  3. Brown, J. K, Klein, M.. Update on Veterans Health Administration’s New Program for Lung Cancer Research and Care American Thoracic Society’s Research News Quarterly 2023. PMID:


  4. Rustagi AS, Byers AL, Brown JK, Purcell N, Slatore CG, Keyhani S. Lung Cancer Screening Among U.S. Military Veterans by Health Status and Race and Ethnicity, 2017-2020: A Cross-Sectional Population-Based Study. AJPM focus 2023. PMID: 37790642


  5. Alison S. Rustagi, Amy L. Byers, James K. Brown, Natalie Purcell, Christopher G. Slatore, and Salomeh Keyhani.. Lung cancer screening among U. S. Veterans by health status and race and ethnicity. 2017-2020: a cross-sectional population-based study American Journal of Preventive Medicine Focus 2023. PMID:


  6. Vachani A, Lam S, Massion PP, Brown JK, Beggs M, Fish AL, Carbonell L, Wang SX, Mazzone PJ. Development and Validation of a Risk Assessment Model for Pulmonary Nodules Using Plasma Proteins and Clinical Factors. Chest 2022. PMID: 36368616


  7. Wong ML, Shi Y, Fung KZ, Ngo S, Elicker BM, Brown JK, Hiatt RA, Tang VL, Walter LC. Age, comorbidity, life expectancy, and pulmonary nodule follow-up in older veterans. PloS one 2018. PMID: 30044854


  8. Brown JK, Hollenberg MD, Jones CA. Tryptase activates phosphatidylinositol 3-kinases proteolytically independently from proteinase-activated receptor-2 in cultured dog airway smooth muscle cells. American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology 2005. PMID: 16155087


  9. Brown JK, Jones CA, Rooney LA, Caughey GH, Hall IP. Tryptase's potent mitogenic effects in human airway smooth muscle cells are via nonproteolytic actions. American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology 2002. PMID: 11792624