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Rebecca Brown, MD, MPH

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CHERP COIN Investigator

Attending Physician, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz (Philadelphia) VA Medical Center

Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine


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Rebecca Brown, MD, MPH is CHERP Core Investigator and an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on optimizing functional status among socioeconomically disadvantaged older adults. She has examined the burden, risk factors, and outcomes of functional impairment and other geriatric conditions among vulnerable older populations, and her current work focuses on improving function among older adults in both clinic and home-based settings. Dr. Brown completed her medical school training at Harvard Medical School. She completed residency in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), followed by fellowship in geriatric medicine at Harvard Medical School, including an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. She returned to UCSF for a research fellowship in geriatric medicine and joined the faculty of the UCSF Division of Geriatrics in 2013. She joined the Penn faculty in 2018.

The overall goal of Dr. Brown's research is to improve function among socioeconomically vulnerable older adults. To achieve this goal, she has examined the burden, risk factors, and outcomes of functional impairment and other geriatric conditions among vulnerable older populations. She is now working to develop targeted interventions to improve function for older adults in both clinic and community settings, through work funded by the VA as well as the National Institute on Aging. Dr. Brown was Principal Investigator on a VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) study, Implementation of Standardized Functional Status for Older Veterans, which focused on improving identification and management of functional impairment for older Veterans in primary care settings.

In her clinical work, Dr. Brown supervises and trains medical students, residents, and fellows while providing care for older patients at Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center (CMCVAMC).

Updated 10/6/2021

Research Areas
Older Veterans