Mark Frederick Brown, MD

Dr. Mark Brown is Clinical Associate Professor at LSU Health Shreveport. A native of Missouri, Dr. Brown attended the University of Missouri, Kansas City, in a special accelerated program that allowed him to complete both his undergraduate and medical degrees in six years. He then moved to Shreveport for a surgical internship at LSU Health Shreveport. Knowing he wanted to specialize in pediatric surgery, Dr. Brown completed a research fellowship at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania before returning to Shreveport for a general surgery residency. After completing his residency, he performed another year of research at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia where he was awarded a pediatric surgery fellowship. Dr. Brown subsequently returned to Shreveport as an Assistant Professor in Surgery at LSU Health Shreveport School of Medicine and was promoted to Associate Professor in only a few years. In 1999, Dr. Brown left academics to join a pediatric surgery group in private practice in Houston, TX, operating primarily at Texas Children’s Hospital. After six years, he returned to Shreveport to practice pediatric surgery, enjoying private practice and academia, serving as a Clinical Associate Professor at LSU Health Shreveport. Dr. Brown is married and has four children, two daughters and two sons. He enjoys golf, grilling, spending time with his family.