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Overview

Alan Brown is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with specific contributions in cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, surgery, economics and econometrics, and genetics. The main themes in their work revolve around lipid metabolism and disorders, lipoproteins and cardiovascular health, diabetes-related cardiovascular risks, glycemic control in critically ill and hospitalized patients, economic and financial impacts of cancer, and atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases.

They have published extensively in several scholarly venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of clinical lipidology
  • American Journal of Preventive Cardiology
  • Circulation
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Gynecologic Oncology

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in South Asians in the US: A clinical perspective from the National Lipid Association" (2021, Journal of clinical lipidology)
  • "Development and validation of clinical criteria to identify familial chylomicronemia syndrome (FCS) in North America" (2024, Journal of clinical lipidology)
  • "DNA sequence and chromatin differentiate sequence-specific transcription factor binding in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum" (2024, Nucleic Acids Research)
  • "The challenges of lipoprotein(a)" (2025, Journal of clinical lipidology)
  • "Brief communication: Strong concordance of the North American Familial Chylomicronemia Syndrome Score with a positive genetic diagnosis in patients from the Balance study" (2025, Journal of clinical lipidology)

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Nihar R. Desai
  • Robert A. Hegele
  • Daniel Gaudet
  • Adib Chaus
  • Paul Leger

Alan Brown's work in cardiology and cardiovascular medicine intersects with endocrinology and metabolic studies, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to understanding lipid-related disorders and their clinical implications. Their research addresses both the molecular mechanisms and clinical criteria relevant to cardiovascular diseases and metabolic syndromes.

Best Publications

  • Prenatal Infection and Schizophrenia: A Review of Epidemiologic and Translational Studies

    Alan S. Brown;Elena J. Derkits

  • Information processing and cognition: The Loyola symposium.

    Alan S. Brown;Robert L. Solso

  • A review of the tip-of-the-tongue experience.

    Alan S. Brown

  • Tools for macromolecular model building and refinement into electron cryo-microscopy reconstructions.

    Alan Brown;Fei Long;Robert A. Nicholls;Jaan Toots

  • The structure of the human mitochondrial ribosome

    Alexey Amunts;Alan Brown;Jaan Toots;Sjors H. W. Scheres

  • ACCF/AHA 2011 expert consensus document on hypertension in the elderly: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Task Force on Clinical Expert Consensus documents developed in collaboration with the American Academy of Neurology, American Geriatrics Society, American Society for Preventive Cardiology, American Society of Hypertension, American Society of Nephrology, Association of Black Cardiologists, and European Society of Hypertension

    Wilbert S. Aronow;Jerome L. Fleg;Carl J. Pepine;Nancy T. Artinian

  • Cryo-EM structure of the Plasmodium falciparum 80S ribosome bound to the anti-protozoan drug emetine

    Wilson Wong;Xiao Chen Bai;Alan Brown;Israel S. Fernandez

  • Structure of the large ribosomal subunit from human mitochondria

    Alan Brown;Alexey Amunts;Xiao Chen Bai;Yoichiro Sugimoto

  • Persistent repetition priming in picture naming and its dissociation from recognition memory.

    David B. Mitchell;Alan S. Brown

  • Neurodevelopmental disorders after prenatal famine: The story of the Dutch Famine Study.

    Ezra Susser;Hans W. Hoek;Alan Brown

  • Organization and Regulation of Mitochondrial Protein Synthesis

    Martin Ott;Alexey Amunts;Alexey Amunts;Alan Brown

  • Treating patients with documented atherosclerosis to national cholesterol Education program-recommended low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol goals with atorvastatin, fluvastatin, lovastatin and simvastatin

    Alan S Brown;Rebecca G Bakker-Arkema;Laurence Yellen;Robert W Henley

  • Prenatal Exposure to Maternal Genital and Reproductive Infections and Adult Schizophrenia

    M.P.H. Vicki Babulas;Pam Factor-Litvak;Raymond Goetz;Catherine A. Schaefer

  • Prenatal Exposure to Famine and Brain Morphology in Schizophrenia

    Hilleke E. Hulshoff Pol;Hans W. Hoek;Ezra Susser;Alan S. Brown

  • The Role of Career Adaptabilities for Mid-Career Changers.

    Alan Brown;Jenny Bimrose;Sally-Anne Barnes;Deirdre Hughes

  • "You will eat all of that!": a retrospective analysis of forced consumption episodes.

    W Robert Batsell;Alan S Brown;Matthew E Ansfield;Gayla Y Paschall

  • From tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) data to theoretical implications in two steps: when more TOTs means better retrieval.

    Tamar H. Gollan;Alan S. Brown

  • Generating and remembering passwords

    Alan S. Brown;Elisabeth Bracken;Sandy Zoccoli;King Douglas

  • The Use of definite and indefinite reference in young children

    Alan S. Brown;Michael P. Maratsos

  • Elevated Maternal C-Reactive Protein and Increased Risk of Schizophrenia in a National Birth Cohort

    Sarah Canetta;Andre Sourander;Heljä-Marja Surcel;Susanna Hinkka-Yli-Salomäki

  • Author response: Cryo-EM structure of the Plasmodium falciparum 80S ribosome bound to the anti-protozoan drug emetine

    Wilson Wong;Wilson Wong;Xiao-chen Bai;Alan Brown;Israel S Fernandez

Frequent Co-Authors

Andre Sourander
Andre Sourander University of Turku
Peter B. Moore
Peter B. Moore Yale University
Elizabeth J. Marsh
Elizabeth J. Marsh Duke University
Christoph Kellendonk
Christoph Kellendonk Columbia University
Ernest N. Jouriles
Ernest N. Jouriles Southern Methodist University
George W. Holden
George W. Holden Southern Methodist University
Renee McDonald
Renee McDonald Southern Methodist University
David Rosenfield
David Rosenfield Southern Methodist University
Roxana Mehran
Roxana Mehran Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Jay A. Gingrich
Jay A. Gingrich Columbia University

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