Background & Specialties

Board Certification

American Board of Plastic Surgery
American Board of Surgery

Professional Background

Dr. Brown completed his medical training at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. After graduation, he completed internships in surgery, internal medicine and plastic surgery. He relocated to the United States in 1988 and completed an internship in internal medicine at the Jersey City Medical Center in New Jersey, followed by six years of general surgery training through Yale University. During his residency, he spent one year researching the viability of cryopreserved skin at the Yale University Skin Bank and Burn Unit, for which he won numerous awards. He returned to South Africa for one year to work in private practice, focusing on trauma and breast surgery before completing a fellowship in plastic and reconstructive surgery at Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Brown has been in solo private practice since 1999. He is Medical Director of Rejuve MediSpa, a skin care and laser clinic adjacent to his surgery practice.

Teaching Appointments

Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor
Quinnipiac University
Hamden, CT

Publications and Presentations

Publications
MD Basson, JE Guinn, W Brown et al, Behavioral Disturbances in Children After Trauma, J. trauma 31: 1963 – 8 1991

W Brown, K Zahir, SJ Dudrick; A Forty Year Experience with Upper Extremity Sarcomas, Cancer 1996

W Brown, C Biggs, SJ Dudrick. Nutritional Management of Head and Neck Tumor Patients in Comprehensive Management of Head and Neck Tumors. SE Thawley, WR Panje, eds. WB Saunders 1996

Presentations
Robert H Ivy Society - April 1999
Pittsburgh, PA
“Guidelines for Facial Melanoma Resection”

American College of Surgeons - January 1996
Central Pennsylvania Chapter Regional Meeting
Hershey, PA
“Use of Latissimus Dorsi Muscle Flap for Closure of Sternal Wound Dehiscence”

American College of Surgeons Regional Meeting - December 1994
Cromwell, CT
“Upper Extremity Sarcomas – A Forty Year Review of the Connecticut Experience”

American Association of Tissue Banks 17th Annual Meeting - August 1993
Boston, MA
“Enhancement of Viability of Cryopreserved Skin”

American College of Surgeons Regional Meeting - December 1992
Cromwell, CT
“Enhancement of Viability of Cryopreserved Skin”

American Burn Association 24th Annual Meeting - April 1992
Salt Lake City, UT
“Approaches to Minimizing Leakage of Beneficial Glycosaminoglycans in Processing Skin for Cryopreservation”

New England Cancer Society 102nd Annual Meeting - November 1991
Boston, MA
“Extent of Resection of Facial Melanoma”

American College of Surgeons Regional Meeting - December 1990
Cromwell, CT
“Extent of Resection of Facial Melanoma”

American College of Surgeons Regional Meeting - December 1989
Cromwell, CT
“Psychosocial Consequences of Trauma in Children”

Hobbies and Interests

Long distance running, cooking, photography.