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About the founder and guiding voice

Meet Dr. Sherry-Ann Brown

Physician-scientist cardiologist, researcher, educator, innovator, writer, and service-centered leader connecting disciplined inquiry with the future of care.

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A life across disciplines

Care at human scale. Vision at systems scale.

I am a physician-scientist cardiologist whose work moves across clinical care, research, education, innovation, equity, writing, and service. My Mayo Clinic training shaped a disciplined approach to inquiry. The people and communities I serve continue to shape the questions worth asking.

I work in general and preventive cardiology, cardio-oncology, cancer survivorship, and national virtual cardiology. Across approximately twenty-five years in research and academic medicine, I have learned to hold the individual story and the larger system within the same field of attention.

My enduring question is simple: how can knowledge become care, opportunity, stewardship, and a stronger future?

Research & Evidence · This Site

Why this work belongs here

Here, I cultivate a distributed research community where learners and collaborators can ask important questions, build disciplined methods, grow in independence, and contribute across distance.

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Welcome. I am Dr. Sherry-Ann Brown, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, a physician-scientist cardiologist whose work brings together care, research, education, innovation, equity, writing, and service. I trained in the Mayo Clinic Clinician Investigator Program through Internal Medicine residency and Cardiology fellowship. My clinical focus includes general and preventive cardiology, cardio-oncology, cancer survivorship, and national virtual cardiology. Across approximately twenty-five years in research and academic medicine, I have learned to move between the intimate scale of one person and the systems that shape care for many. I am licensed as a medical doctor across all fifty states and Washington, DC. I serve as Scientific Director of Heart Spark Research and Innovation Institute and as a Clinical Associate Professor at Florida International University College of Medicine. I also guide an interconnected family of clinical, research, educational, technology, publishing, business, and service initiatives. Here, I cultivate a distributed research community where learners and collaborators can ask important questions, build disciplined methods, grow in independence, and contribute across distance. My work is guided by strategy, curiosity, disciplined learning, connectedness, faith, and a future-facing commitment to leave people and systems stronger than I found them.

PURPOSE IN PRACTICE

Develop people while developing evidence.

The laboratory joins rigorous inquiry, distributed leadership, peer learning, transparent contribution, mentorship, and scholarly work that prepares future researchers to serve well.

Awaken the heartClarify purposeSteward giftsDevelop peopleMultiply influence