Professor Brown is a Renal and Obstetric Medicine Physician at St George Hospital and Professor of Renal Medicine at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He is the current President of the International Society for the Study of Hypertension in Pregnancy. His clinical work includes all aspects of nephrology with specific interests in the fields of obstetric medicine and hypertension, including hypertension in pregnancy. He has been involved in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education for many years. Research activities have centred on scientific and clinical studies of hypertension and renal disease in pregnancy, with over 230 peer reviewed publications.