Amy Caruso Brown

Amy Caruso Brown attended the University of Virginia as an undergraduate and later received a medical degree from Emory University and master's degrees in medical anthropology from Oxford University and in clinical research from the University of Colorado. She trained as a pediatrician and pediatric hematologist/oncologist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Children's Hospital Colorado. She has lived in six countries and speaks five languages badly (plus Latin!). After five years living (and skiing, climbing, rowing, and sometimes missing humidity and green things) in Denver, she is now an associate professor of pediatrics, bioethics and humanities in upstate New York.

Amy's academic interests include the provision of ethical health care to children and families, regardless of race, religion, national origin, sexual and gender identity, or ability to pay, particularly in the current political climate; the impact of social media on communication, medical decision making, and trust between families and pediatricians; and the promotion of pediatric cancer treatment and palliative care in resource-limited settings (currently Kisumu, Kenya). She developed and teaches a justice-centered ethics and population health curriculum to medical students, which is now available as a textbook: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030035433. A partial bibiliography is also available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1F9gek5wjv954/bibliography/public/

In her spare time, she runs, rock climbs, skis, and plays the piano. She lives and raises her son, who is already a better rock climber than her, in the house her father built.