Rate My Professor Theodore Brown

Professor Theodore Brown is a Full Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Toronto within the Temerty Faculty of Medicine. He is a reproductive biologist with a primary research interest in the role steroid hormones and ovulation play in ovarian cancer risk and progression. He is a senior investigator at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Sinai Health and holds the Mount Sinai Auxiliary Chair in Women’s Health and Ovarian Cancer. Dr. Brown obtained his PhD in Zoology, with a focus on neuroendocrinology, from Iowa State University in 1985 and completed four years of postdoctoral research training in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at Yale University. He joined the University of Toronto in 1989. He served as head of the Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Division from 2005 until 2020 and currently heads the Division of Reproductive Sciences. He has been a member of the department’s Executive Committee since 2005 and serves on multiple department committees, including the senior promotions committee, research committee, faculty appointments committee, and faculty development committee. Dr. Brown holds cross-appointments to the Department of Physiology, the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, and the Institute of Medical Science. He sits on the Leadership Committee and Graduate Faculty Appointments Committee in the Institute of Medical Science and directs the IMS Summer Undergraduate Research Program. He co-founded the MHSc Laboratory Medicine Program in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, launched in 2020, and teaches various courses in Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, the Institute of Medical Science, and Physiology.

His research focuses on ovarian cancer and reproductive endocrinology. Dr. Brown maintains primary appointments in Obstetrics and Gynaecology with additional affiliations across related disciplines at the University of Toronto.