Vincent McGovern Lecture by Dr Ian S. Brown
on Saturday 12:15 – 1:00 pm in the Pyrmont Theatre
Title: “Pathology is Gross”
Dr Ian S Brown MBBS FRCPA
Ian S. Brown MBBS FRCPA received his medical degree from the University of Queensland and pursued specialty training in anatomical pathology at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, obtaining his fellowship from the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia in 1999.
Dr Brown specialised in gastrointestinal pathology and is the managing director of Envoi Pathology, a specialist gastrointestinal pathology practice based in Brisbane. He has also been a visiting pathologist at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital since 2004.
Dr Brown has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and meeting abstracts. He has written 14 book chapters on gastrointestinal tract pathology, including chapters for Morson and Dawson’s Gastrointestinal Pathology and Odze and Goldblum: Surgical Pathology of the GI Tract, Liver, Biliary Tract, and Pancreas. He authored two chapters for the 5th edition WHO Classification of Digestive System Tumours and co-edited, with Professor Priyanthi Kumarasinghe, the textbook ‘Endoscopic Biopsy Interpretation’. Dr Brown serves on the editorial board of Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Histopathology and is an Associate Editor for Pathology. He was a co-founder of the Australasian Gastrointestinal Pathology Society.
His research interests focus on inflammatory conditions of the luminal gastrointestinal tract and early neoplasia of the large intestine. He has presented many invited lectures at national and international levels on these topics.