Nicole M. Brown, MD

Biography

Dr. Brown is a native of Louisville, KY and later graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Dayton with a degree in Biochemistry. Following completion of her medical degree at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, she stayed in Cincinnati for a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. Dr. Brown then completed her Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC before returning to Cincinnati once again to be the first Adult Congenital Heart Disease Fellow here. She has been on faculty at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center ever since and participates in a variety of clinical, educational, and research activities within the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children's as well as at several neighboring hospitals.

Dr. Brown serves as an attending cardiologist for the Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD), Cardiovascular Genetics, and Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension teams. She is director of the Cardiovascular Genetics Clinic as well as the ACHD Fellowship Program. Additionally, she is director of ACHD for the Center for Maternal Cardiac Care (CMCC) at TriHealth. Dr. Brown’s primary clinical interests include all forms of congenital heart disease, management of pregnancy in the setting of cardiovascular disease, pulmonary hypertension, and genetically-mediated aortic disease. Her research interests have thus far focused on obstacles to the care of ACHD patients and cardiovascular complications of Turner syndrome.