Dr. Michael Brown graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a BS in Biology in 1982. He subsequently attended the University of Miami where he obtained a PhD in Biochemistry and a MD degree. He worked in Research at the University of Miami and Bascom Palmer Institute. He worked in the Biomedical industry in South Florida as VP of Clinical Affairs at Bioheart, Inc. supervising clinical trials in heart muscle regeneration. Dr. Brown started teaching in the recently formed Biomedical Engineering Department at FIU in 2003 as an adjunct Instructor. He was hired as a full-time Instructor in 2005, promoted to Senior Instructor in 2011 and to University Instructor in 2017. Dr. Brown received a Uniiversity Faculty Teaching Award in 2012 and two College of Engineering and Computing Teaching Awards in 2011 and 2017. Dr. Brown is responsible for teaching the physiology courses in the department as well as the Clinical Rotations course which helps prepare the students to enter the Biomedical industry by visiting local companies and hospitals.
